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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 11: VER. 11.
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.
As First, When you desire, a gift, rather than God in it; when your desires are for the Gift rather than the Giver you can have no comfort that there's love in it. There's no man that hath to deal with another, if he knows that what he doth desire from him, it is not out of love to him, but merely from the love of the gift, certainly though he may give him for some other ends, yet he doth not give it out of love, Those desires that are not out of love, are not satisfied from love. Love satisfies no desires that are ⟨p. 541⟩not raised by love, love it acts always upon love. Now God knows what the ground of our desires are, if we desire the Gift rather than the Giver, rather than God in it, (I say) we can have no comfort that it is from love what we do enjoy. A gracious heart whatsoever it would have from God, yet this is the main thing in its desires, Oh! let me have God in it, such is my condition here in this world, that God appoints that I shall not enjoy him immediately altogether, but I shall enjoy him through such and such mercies, Oh then that I might have these mercies that I might enjoy him in them. Certainly any thing that thou hast in way of satisfaction to these desires is out of love; but when thou lookest no further than the Creature, thou wouldest have the thing but lookest not at God in it, thou canst not expect the love of God to be conveyed by it. That's the first thing.
As First, When you desire, a gift, rather than God in it; when your desires are for the Gift rather than the Giver you can have no comfort that there's love in it. There's no man that hath to deal with another, if he knows that what he doth desire from him, it is not out of love to him, but meerly from the love of the gift, certainly though he may give him for some other ends, yet he doth not give it out of love, Those desires that are not out of love, are not satisfied from love. Love satisfies no desires that are ⟨p. 541⟩not raised by love, love it acts alwaies upon love. Now God knows what the ground of our desires are, if we desire the Gift rather than the Giver, rather than God in it, (I say) we can have no comfort that it is from love what we do enjoy. A gracious heart whatsoever it would have from God, yet this is the main thing in its desires, Oh! let me have God in it, such is my condition here in this world, that God appoints that I shall not enjoy him immediately altogether, but I shall enjoy him through such and such mercies, Oh then that I might have these mercies that I might enjoy him in them. Certainly any thing that thou hast in way of satisfaction to these desires is out of love; but when thou lookest no further than the Creature, thou wouldest have the thing but lookest not at God in it, thou canst not expect the love of God to be conveyed by it. That's the first thing.