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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 9: VER. 9.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Oh! Let's learn to be afraid of our selves, and to pray to God to be delivered from our selves, Better to be given 1up to the Devil than to ones self. You know the incestuous person was delivered up to Satan, but it was for the destruction 2of the flesh, and the saving of his soul; but when one is given up to himself, it is for the damning of his soul: then, that's no way for to save ones self to be given up to himself: Thou hast destroyed thy self.
- 12.
- 21 Cor. 5.
And my Brethren, we have cause to think of this point 1very seriously, in another notion, in respect of the Kingdom and Nation; certainly if ever this Kingdom be destroyed, it must needs be written for the Generations to come, Here's a Kingdom, a Nation that hath destroyed its self. Certainly we cannot say 'tis from God, if we perish, what God will do with us we know not, but truly, this we may plainly see, That if God leaves us but a little 2more to our selves, we are in a very fair way to destroy our selves, and that after God hath wrought so for us, God hath wrought like a God for us, but we, how do we deal for our selves! like men shall we say? Oh no, like brute-beasts, if men, mad men, men that are appointed to destruction. If we be destroyed, it will be the saddest story ⟨p. 517⟩that ever was in the world against a people, if so be that at length we should perish after God hath done so much for us, truly now God hath wrought like a God to deliver us from our common Enemies, God had need to