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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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Eighthly, When we seek greedily to have our desires satisfied, 1but rest in the means we use, and seek to be beholding to the creature only for it, we do not lay the great weight upon prayer: what ever it is, that we enjoy, and we do not get it by *prayer, we cannot know that it is in love. When God intends a mercy from love, he doth first fill the heart with the Spirit of Prayer; when a mercy comes after much prayer then it's a mercy from love. When the Saints have been praying, and then God hath come in with mercy, Oh then they have gathered arguments of Gods love to them; This I had because I sought thee; as Hannah did concerning Samuel, how did she rejoice in Samuel! Oh! this is the child that I prayed for saith Hannah unto Eli: Oh! this is the mercy that I prayed for; therefore she called her child's name Samuel, one that was sought of God. And so when we can call every gift we have, we can call it Samuel, that is, a gift asked of God, here's a gift that's got by prayer; Whatsoever 3means was used, yet prayer was the chief ingredient, this is an argument of love. But otherwise we can have no assurance that it is from love: It's true, a King was not unlawful for them to desire, because they had such hints in Scripture; Oh but they did not so much mind them; no, but they come to Samuel, and say, Come, Give us a King, we do not read that they go to God for it. Such 4a great change of their State as that was, one would think should have required divers days in seeking of God. It was a mighty ⟨p. 548⟩change from such a Government as they had, unto a new kind of Government, and from a Government that was of Gods own appointment to another Government wherein now they would suit themselves according to the Nations. And yet we find no days of prayer for this; and therefore it was in wrath that they had it. Therefore when you would have any thing, look not so much to come by it according to second causes, but be much in Prayer, according to the excellency of the thing that you seek for.