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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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Fourthly, When God grants us what we would have, but 1there comes no blessing at all with what we enjoy; he doth grant the thing, but takes away the blessing of the thing, he takes away the comfort of it, the satisfaction in it, They shall eat, but they shall not be satisfied: So in Psal. 106. 15. There he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul, the text saith, He filled them according to their desires with flesh, but sent leanness into their soul; the meaning of the text is this, It is a similitude transferred from the body to the soul, that as many times men may 2have a dogs appetite (as the Physicians calls it) that is, a mighty greedy stomach, but they cannot digest what they eat, and so the body is lean; so here, they had a mighty desire, but as in the body many times there is such a disease that the meat turns not to nourishment, so in their souls, they had even that their souls desired, yea, but their souls could not be satisfied, there was that distemper in the soul as in the body, the body doth not thrive with what it eats when it hath such a disease upon it; so though the soul hath what it did desire for the matter of it, yet it had a distemper in it; thus it could not be satisfied, nor thrive, nor prosper with what it had, Oh he sent leanness into their soul. How many times are men and women mighty greedy, and desirous after such and such contents, and think thus, Oh how happy should I be if I had this and the other thing! it ⟨p. 544⟩may be God lets you have what you would here, but when he hath let you have it, he snatches away the comfort of it; you shall have a Well, but it shall have no bottom, you shall not be able to get out the good and comfort in what you have. And that's the Fourth thing. Surely God is not in it, for the blessing of God makes rich, and ads no sorrow with it, no, he brings comfort.
Fourthly, When God grants us what we would have, but 1there comes no blessing at all with what we enjoy; he doth grant the thing, but takes away the blessing of the thing, he takes away the comfort of it, the satisfaction in it, They shal eat, but they shall not be satisfied: So in