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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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Ninthly, When God gives our desires, but doth not give a proportionable measure of Grace, that so we might make a sanctified 1use of them: when God gives you the shell, but not the kernel, surely it is not in love. If your children should ask a Nut of you, and you give them a Nut that hath no Kernel, they will not think (if so be that you knew it) that it is in any great love. Truly, all the good things that wicked men have, they are but Shells without Kernels, they are not in love. The Kernel of every Blessing, it is a 2proportionable measure of grace to use it for God. You have a great desire that God should change your condition, if he should change it, and not give you a heart fit for that condition, you had better be without that thing; you have a desire that God should prosper you in such a business, yea, but if he doth not teach you how to abound, you had been better never to have abounded: Now it's not in love for God to give any success, except he gives a proportionable measure of Grace according to the success: therefore that's that which you should all examine, the Lord hath altered my condition, and many good things I have more than before; but what Graces have I more than before? what exercise of Grace? what work of Grace more than before? Certainly if it be in love it will be so.
Ninthly, When God gives our desires, but doth not give a proportionable measure of Grace, that so we might make a sanctified 1use of them: when God gives you the shell, but not the kernel, surely it is not in love. If your children should ask a Nut of you, and you give them a Nut that hath no Kernel, they wil not think (if so be that you knew it) that it is in any great love. Truly, all the good things that wicked men have, they are but Shels without Kernels, they are not in love. The Kernel of every Blessing, it is a 2proportionable measure of grace to use it for God. You have a great desire that God should change your condition, if he should change it, and not give you a heart fit for that condition, you had better be without that thing; you have a desire that God should prosper you in such a business, yea, but if he doth not teach you how to abound, you had been better never to have abounded: Now it's not in love for God to give any success, except he gives a proportionable measure of Grace according to the success: therefore that's that which you should all examin, the Lord hath altered my condition, and many good things I have more than before; but what Graces have I more than before? what exercise of Grace? what work of Grace more than before? Certainly if it be in love it will be so.