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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 11 › Verse 4: VERS. 4.
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.
The Second Observation is this:
The way to prevail with men, it is to deal with them in a rational 1way; the way that I took with this people to prevail with them, it was, to draw them with the cords of men: Certainly the way that God takes to prevail with people is the best way.
- 1Obs. 2.
Therefore those men that would prevail with any people 1to bring them to any thing that they desire, tis to deal with them in a rational way, and so seek to prevail with them; the Spirit of God doth so, in Joh. 16. 8. And when 2he is come, he will reprove the world of sin: it is, shall come with DEMONSTRATION, for so the word Logically signifies; it's a word that signifies to convince in a way ⟨p. 51⟩of demonstration that one cannot deny possibly, and so the Apostle saith, We came in the demonstration of the spirit 3and of power. Mark; Demonstration of the Spirit, so it came to be in power; and it concerns Ministers more especially. If you that are Ministers would speak powerfully to people, speak in demonstration, the demonstration of the Spirit indeed it must be, there is a spiritual Reason in the Scripture; Ministers must not think to scare