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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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Thirdly, When God grants unto men their desires, but it is before the due time: They have what they would have, 1Oh! but they have it not in Gods time. Children they long and desire after green Fruit, but if they could stay but a few weeks or months, one Apple then would be worth an hundred when they are green; but they cannot 2stay, they must have the Fruit when it is green; They have it, but it breeds Worms in their bellies and doth them no good. So when we have our desires satisfied before the due time, it's not in love then. Certainly a Mother intends little good to her Child, though her Child should cry for green Apples from off the tree, to fill the belly of her Child with those green Apples, No, it's not the due time; God had promised that Israel should have a King in due time, that there should come Kings from the loins of Abraham: And in Deut. 17. 14. There's a prophecy of a King, that they should have; yea, but they would not stay Gods time, and therefore it was not out of love: in Psal. 106. 13. it is said there, That those that did so lust, God gave them their lusts in his wrath, ⟨p. 542⟩They did not wait for his Counsel. That's that which is noted 3there Oh! we should be willing to wait for Gods Counsel. We would have the thing presently done: yea but Gods Counsel works one thing after another, and one thing depends upon another, and we should be willing to wait for his Counsel; If we will not mind Gods Counsel, but must have our desires satisfied, and that now; we cannot expect love in them, but it's rather wrath; He gives unto them in his Anger: and that's the Third Note.
Thirdly, When God grants unto men their desires, but it is before the due time: They have what they would have, 1Oh! but they have it not in Gods time. Children they long and desire after green Fruit, but if they could stay but a few weeks or months, one Apple then would be worth an hundred when they are green; but they cannot