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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.
It may be in a way of aggravation of their sin and 1stubbornness, Why doest not thou come in to me? have not I always been a help to thee in all times of straights and distresses? You are in great misery; now I am the same that ever I was, yet there's help enough in me: from whence the Note is this:
It may be in a way of aggravation of their sin and 1stubbornness, Why doest not thou come in to me? have not I alwaies been a help to thee in all times of straights and distresses? You are in great miserie; now I am the same that ever I was, yet there's help enough in me: from whence the Note is this:
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Those that heretofore have seen help in God, and yet if now 1their misery grows upon them, and they sink yet lower and lower, they had need examine themselves throughly: Surely they have shut the door against themselves for help, for God is never weary of doing good, his arm is not shortened, as in Isa. 59. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God. I beseech you mark but this, there is a great difference between God and man in this thing of Helping. Men that are very kind sometimes and helpful, yet at other times they will be very surly and harsh towards those that they have been very helpful to in former times, and that not from any cause without, but merely from the temper of their own hearts, and the change that there is in their own spirits; not because those that they have been kind to are worse now than before, no, but because of a froward, surly, harsh humour that is risen up in themselves: you shall see such a difference in men that have been very sweet, loving, and helpful to you at some times, but come to them at other times, and you shall find them dogged, and surly, and harsh, and you cannot tell what hath provoked them; no, it is nothing but from a surly distemper that is risen in their hearts. Oh! thus it is with men, but it is not so with God. Thou hast destroyed thy self, but in Me is thy help; it is still, I have been thy helper all thy days, and still am the same God ready to do good unto thee, and to help thee.