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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 13 › Verse 11: VER. 11.
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Let us learn for ever not to judge of the goodness of a thing by 1the success of it. Say some, I'll warrant you we will have this; and if they get what they desire, they think God approves of it: They may desire a thing, and be set upon it, and though much be said to the contrary, yet they may drive on their designs, and prosper in it: But this is no argument that God owns it as good, never judge of things by success.
Let us learn for ever not to judge of the goodness of a thing by 1the success of it. Say some, I'le warrant you we will have this; and if they get what they desire, they think God approves of it: They may desire a thing, and be set upon it, and though much be said to the contrary, yet they may drive on their designs, and prosper in it: But this is no argument that God owns it as good, never judge of things by success.
- 1Success no note of a good cause.
And then the Third point, and that will require some time indeed to speak to, and that is, That Gods gifts are 1not always in love. I gave them a King saith he, but in mine anger. Gods gifts are not always in love; no, they are in anger many times: Read but the 11. of Numbers, 18. 20. you shall find there of God giving people their desires. He lets them have them, but how? Say thou unto the People, Sanctify your selves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? Therefore the Lord will give you flesh. You have wept and cried, saying, Who shall give us flesh? The Lord will give you flesh, And, ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, but a whole month shall you eat it, till it comes out at your nostrils; you shall have enough of it, even till it be loathsome to you: Why? Because you have despised the Lord, which is among you: The Lord gave them their desires, because they had despised him. So you are ready to bless your selves in this: I have what I would have, and think that therefore God regards you, that God gives you what you would desire, because you have sinned against him;