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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.
We can easily destroy our selves, but can we save our selves? A Child can break a Glass that all the men in the Country cannot make it up again. Every fool may 1do mischief to himself, yea, and to others, but can he help? 'tis God only that is the help of his People, 'tis not means that help, but God; yea, 'tis that that God doth much glory in, To be accounted the cause of all good; he would have all evil cast upon men, but all good from Himself, even present good, and eternal good he would have attributed to himself.2
We can easily destroy our selves, but can we save our selves? A Child can break a Glass that all the men in the Country cannot make it up again. Everie fool may 1do mischief to himself, yea, and to others, but can he help? 'tis God onlie that is the help of his People, 'tis not means that help, but God; yea, 'tis that that God doth much glorie in, To be accounted the cause of all good; he would have all evil cast upon men, but al good from Himself, even present good, and eternal good he would have attributed to himself.2
- 1Simile
- 2Inde sequitur, Praedestinationem, Vocationem, & Gratiam; non esse ex praevijs praedestinatorum meritis; sed ex Deo praedestinanter, vocanter, gratiâ suâ praedestinatos praevenicute; haec enim sunt AVXILIVM Dei. Cornel à Lapidè in loc.
In the reading of this Scripture, I find a very strange Expression of one Commenting upon it, that one would think had some knowledge of the freeness of Gods Grace and Goodness, and yet a Jesuit. [In me is thy help] Hence it follows (saith he) That Predestination, Vocation, and Grace, do not come from the foresight of the Merits of those that are Predestinated, but from Gods Predestinating, Calling, Preventing with his Grace: These things are the help of God: even from the mouth of a Jesuit we have this, acknowledging sometimes in their Writings, and when they are serious, that neither Predestination, nor Vocation, nor Grace comes from any foresight of what man would do,