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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 11 › Verse 3: VER. 3.
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.
that is, shifting this way and that, and not daring to trust God in his way; we are afraid that if we should go on in the right path that God guides us in, that we should miscarry, and therefore we go about, and that's the reason it is so long before we have our deliverance, because we go about, and do not follow Gods guidance in our way. There's an excellent promise that God makes to his people in Jer. 31. 9. in reference to the 1guiding of them in their way from their Captivity; They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born. This is a Scripture very suitable to that Scripture we are now opening. It's a fruit of fatherly love to guide us in a straight way, and keep us from stumbling. But mark how this shall be done: They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them. There must be weeping and supplication to 2cry to God for guidance in our way: As a poor child if it be left a little by the Mother or Nurse, it stands crying to be guided in its way; and this should be our care in all our straights, not to fly upon this Instrument, or the other, but to cry to God to guide us in our way. We may apply this to Gods guidance of the soul from spiritual Egypt; when God brings the soul out of the spiritual 3bondage he guides it in the way to heavenly Canaan: you whom the Lord are bringing out of your Spiritual Bondage, look up to God to teach you how to go: why? For your way is a hard way, it is a straight way, it is a narrow way that you are going now, it hath many stumbling blocks in it, it hath many by-paths near it, that are very like to it; Your way is a very slippery way, 4and you had need be taught how to go; you may slip and fall and break your selves quickly if you be not taught how to go; you that are young beginners in the ⟨p. 33⟩way of Religion be not too confident in your own understanding, and your own strength: many poor children