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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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Fourteenthly, When men seek to have their desires satisfied merely because they love change. We cannot have any comfort ⟨p. 552⟩that God doth it out of love, when it is out of a foolish spirit that loves novelty. They, though they had bin long enough under that kind of Government, and in a mere kind of novelty, not knowing what might come of such a change, but a change they would have. And so people though there be never so much good in a way, yet out of a novelty they would fain have a change: And if God grant them a change when they have no other ground but that for it, it is a sign that there is wrath in it, and not love.
Fourteenthly, When men seek to have their desires sarisfied meerly because they love change. We cannot have any comfort ⟨p. 552⟩that God doth it out of love, when it is out of a foolish spirit that loves novelty. They, though they had bin long enough under that kind of Government, and in a meer kind of novelty, not knowing what might come of such a change, but a change they would have. And so people though there be never so much good in a way, yet out of a novelty they would fain have a change: And if God grant them a change when they have no other ground but that for it, it is a sign that there is wrath in it, and not love.
Further, When it is through impatience, and want of heart to submit to God in a former condition. It's ill when it is 1through a mere novelty, but when it's through impatience then it's like to be in wrath, and not in mercy, if your condition be changed, God hath put you in a lower and mean condition, it's true, it's lawful for you to desire a change, yea, but if you desire it because you cannot submit to Gods hand, then it's a sign that it is in wrath, but when you have brought your hearts to this, Lord here I am, dispose of me as thou pleasest, I am content to lie under thy hand, but Lord, I look up to thee for mercy; Consider I am a poor weak Creature, and it is fit that thou shouldest have thy will, and not I mine: then if God make a change, you may have comfort that it is in mercy: but if you have it through impatience, you can have no comfort at all in it. It was just so here, they could not bear the hand of God that was upon them, any present trouble that they had upon them, and so thought to help themselves by having a King, and God gave them one, but it was in his anger.