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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.
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.
Thirdly, Love it is generative, Love hath a great generative power to begged Love. Augustin saith, There is no 1greater provocation to Love, than to begin to love. *Love can draw iron hearts. Love, it is the Lodestone of Love, it will draw Love, and beget Love where ever it is.
Thirdly, Love it is generative, Love hath a great generative power to beged Love. Augustin saith, There is no 1greater provocation to Love, than to begin to love. *Love can draw iron hearts. Love, it is the Loadstone of Love, it will draw Love, and beget Love where ever it is.
- 13. Nulla est major ad amorem provocatio, quam praerentre amando. Aug.
- *Magnes amoris amor.
Fourthly, Where Love is got into the soul it commands all, it commands all the Faculties and Understanding where Love is got. Look what a man loves, so accordingly his understanding will work: It a man loves his sin, 1his understanding will be working for his sin; Oh what subtle Arguments will men have for their sin when they love it! any way that a mans heart is engaged in Love he will be very subtle to argue for it. So on the contrary, when once the Lord hath taken the heart with Love, this Love commands the understanding, and then all reasonings are for God, and the soul it hearkens after no reasonings that are against God, or against his ways, when once the heart is taken with Love. If a mans heart be taken with love to a Woman, he will hear nothing against her; but if his love be taken off from her, then every report that he hears against her he will aggravate to the uttermost he can, and will soon believe it. So it is, when a mans heart is taken with the things of God, and of Religion, it will hear nothing against them; but if a mans heart be off and do not love the ways of God, then they are glad if they can hear any thing that makes against them. Love commands all the Faculties of the Soul, the Understanding, and the Thoughts, it commands the Will, and Affections, it commands the Body,