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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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Secondly, When our desires are immoderate and violent, then 1we have cause to suspect, if God satisfies them, that they are not out of love, when we are in a hurry in our desires. This was just the case of this People here; Nay, but let us have a King (say they,) we must needs have him, whatsoever comes of it, we will have him. When God doth use to satisfy the desires of his People in his love, he doth first quiet their hearts, he brings their hearts into a sweet and 2blessed moderation; but when mens hearts are violent, that the thing they desire they must have, God doth many times say, You shall have it then, take it: but then he speaks not in love, that's very remarkable: The desires of the People in the 11. of Numbers for Quails, it's a notable Scripture to confirm our Point here, That God doth not always satisfy in love. Read Psal. 78. 30. and so on, there you have the same story recorded of their desiring of Quails, they were mightily violent in their desires. But that's the thing I would observe there, That the Lord after he had showed that he did not answer their ⟨p. 543⟩desires in love, but in wrath, then in vers. 34. after the judgments of God had come upon them in the satisfying of their desires, that many of them were slain by God; then saith the Text, he called the name of that place, Kibroth-Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted: that is, The Sepulchres of the lusts of the desires that they had: God sets a Brand upon that place, saith he, Here are the Graves of the desirers; Oh! the desirers, they must needs have flesh, and they stood upon their desires, their desires must be satisfied; And here's the Graves of the desirers saith God. Oh remember, you that lust after evil things, remember when your desires are immoderate and violent, it's just with God to set a brand by some remarkable hand of his against you, and say, Here's the 3mark of these desires that were so immoderate, and so violent. That's the Second Note.
Secondly, When our desires are imoderate and violent, then