A30575:1542
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.
Sixthly, Learn from hence, To be content to wait, and 1to be denied of your desires. Oh! this is a point of very great use, to teach us patience when God denies us; be patient and content when God denies you your desires, for you do not know what God may aim at in it.
Sixthly, Learn from hence, To be content to wait, and 1to be denied of your desires. Oh! this is a point of verie great use, to teach us patience when God denies us; be patient and content when God denies you your desires, for you do not know what God may aim at in it.
- 16.
Seventhly, Learn from hence, Not to rest in what you enjoy, 1but to seek to know the principle from whence it comes. And this I take to be as special a difference between a Carnal heart, and a Gracious heart as any I know. A Carnal 2heart thinks this: If I have the thing, I care not for any more: but a Gracious heart looks at the principle from whence it comes, he loves to look at the root and principle of all. A Gardener that oweth the Flowers regards ⟨p. 557⟩the root more than the flower a great deal: but a stranger 3is mo•e pleased with the Flower than with the Root. So Carnal hearts look only at Flowers; but gracious hearts look at the Root: I have such and such a thing, but have I an evidence of Gods love? Look how high the head of the Fountain is, so high the Water will go, and no higher; Water will ascend as high as the place was from whence it did descend. And so every mercy we have will carry us as high as from whence it came: If