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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 11 › Verse 4: VERS. 4.
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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 4men into the ways of Godliness, though I know some times God makes use of the bare terrors of the Law; but the main thing whereby Ministers must have hope to do good to their people must be by preaching convincingly, to overcome their very reason as much as possibly can be, and to set the Law of God so before them as if they will but judg between God and their own souls, they shall condemn themselves, and approve of God. That Ministry is like to be the best Soul-saving Ministry, that meets 5with every objection of their hearts, and at every turn the secrets of their hearts comes to be opened; Oh! remember you preach to men and therefore you make use of that reason that you find in Scripture: I know reason alone will never do it; I, but God when he works to the salvation of souls, he works upon them after the manner of men, and therefore the Ministers of God that are Coworkers with God, they should work in such a suitable way.