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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.
Twelfthly, When God satisfying of our desires, makes way 1for some judgment. Now indeed the thing is comfortable that we have, but stay a while and you shall see there is some judgment making way by that very thing that you have: and when the judgment is come, afterwards you will see how it made way for it: there are very great judgments many times upon men, that are made way for by the satisfying of their own desires: God hath many ways to prepare a path for his anger, by giving you your desires many times, there's nothing more ordinary in experience than this, and therefore we need not stand upon it; If you will but examine the course of your lives, sometimes you may see that if God had satisfied your desires in such and such things, it would have made way for the greatest misery that ever you had in all your lives, and when God denies sometimes to his People, they can confess, O Lord, I see that had I had my mind in such a thing which I would have had, I had been undone. And on the other side, You will find that those things which you account the greatest mercies to you, do make way for the greatest evils, surely they were not given in love then.
Twelfthly, When God satisfying of our desires, makes way 1for some judgment. Now indeed the thing is comfortable that we have, but stay a while and you shall see there is some judgment making way by that very thing that you have: and when the judgment is come, afterwards you will see how it made way for it: there are very great judgments many times upon men, that are made way for by the satisfying of their own desires: God hath many waies to prepare a path for his anger, by giving you your desires many times, there's nothing more ordinary in experience than this, and therefore we need not stand upon it; If you wil but examin the course of your lives, sometimes you may see that if God had satisfied your desires in such and such things, it would have made way for the greatest misery that ever you had in al your lives, and when God denies sometimes to his People, they can confess, O Lord, I see that had I had my mind in such a thing which I would have had, I had been undone. And on the other side, You wil find that those things which you accompt the greatest mercies to you, do make way for the greatest evils, surely they were not given in love then.
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