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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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Thirdly, learn this Lesson, Be not too much exalted when 1thou hast thy desires satisfied Me thinks this Point might be as a prick, to prick the bladders of the pride of mens hearts. Oh! take heed though you have prospered according to your desires; Saul prospered a great while, and yet it was in wrath. Certainly there's no great matter ⟨p. 556⟩to be expected from such things as we may have in Gods wrath, and therefore no cause to be exalted.
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Fourthly, Learn from hence, Never to draw any arguments 1of Gods love, by satisfying your desires in outward things. It is a vain conceit of people to think thus, God loves me, why? because I have desired such and such things, and God hath given them to me. If a man were to go and choose a Wife, if he knew her face were painted, would 2he conclude, Surely here's one of an excellent complexion? No, he would rather suspect it; truly the argument is as good, That this woman's complexion and the constitution of her body is whole and good, as that argument, that my condition is good because God satisfies me in my desires.
Fourthly, Learn from hence, Never to draw any arguments 1of Gods love, by satisfying your desires in outward things. It is a vain conceit of people to think thus, God loves me, why? because I have desired such and such things, and God hath given them to me. If a man were to go and chuse a Wife, if he knew her face were painted, would 2