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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.
Doth thy conscience tell thee that there hath been a 1time wherein God hath been displeased with thee, the anger of God hath burst out against thee? perhaps thou art in a better condition now than thou wast before; Oh but tell me, hast thou humbled thy soul before God to ⟨p. 546⟩make up thy peace with him? hath there been a day of atonement between God and thy soul? hath Gods displeasure been out against thee, and now doth he come and satisfy thee in what thou doest desire before any thing hath been done in falling down before him and seeking his face, and making peace? thou canst not have comfort in this satisfying of thy desires, but it's rather in wrath than in mercy.
Doth thy conscience tell thee that there hath been a 1time wherein God hath been displeased with thee, the anger of God hath burst out against thee? perhaps thou art in a better condition now than thou wast before; Oh but tell me, hast thou humbled thy soul before God to ⟨p. 546⟩make up thp peace with him? hath there been a day of atonement between God and thy soul? hath Gods displeasure been out against thee, and now doth he come and satisfie thee in what thou doest desire before any thing hath been done in falling down before him and seeking his face, and making peace? thou canst not have comfort in this satisfying of thy desires, but it's rather in wrath than in mercy.
- 1Note.
Seventhly, When God regards not our preparation for a mercy, he gives it whether we be fitted for it yea, or no: no 1