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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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For the First then, How we may come to know a thing to be given by God in anger rather than in love. It is a very 1hard thing to convince men, if they have their desires satisfied that it is rather from anger than love; Men are so well pleased with the satisfying of their desires that they can very hardly be convinced but that God intends good to them in it, and therefore you shall find in 1 Sam. 12. 17. that God was fain to do a great and wonderful work of his to convince this people that, that which he gave them there (Saul) it was in anger rather than in love, Is it not Wheat Harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder, and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a King. Samuel had before in Chap. 8. told them of their sin in asking a King, ⟨p. 540⟩but they would not be convinced, still they must have a King. Now saith Samuel, It is Wheat Harvest, and whereas the people of the Jews were never wont to have rain in Harvest time, it was a strange and wonderful thing for them to have rain then: But though it be Harvest-time, yet it shall rain and thunder, and all to the end that you may be convinced of your great wickedness in asking you a King. They had not only had their desires granted before this time, but as they thought had some confirmation 2of their desires; for Saul had prospered after he had been a King: but yet for all that (saith he) I will give you an evident demonstration that it is not in love that you have him, but it was your great wickedness in seeking you a King. And Samuel called upon the Lord (saith the text) and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. And then in vers. 19. All the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not, for we have added unto all our sins this evil, To ask us a King: Now we do acknowledge it to be a very great and sore evil indeed, though our King hath prospered a while, yet God shows us now that it is an evil. And by this you may see that it is hard for men to be convinced when they have according to their hearts desires, that it is in Anger rather than in Love.