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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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Whatsoever is to be thought of this story, yet certainly there's no such bonds as the bonds of Love to draw the hearts of people unto God. Have you to deal with stony hearts? the way it is to lay them upon the soft pillow of the Gospel, and so you may break them; lay a stone upon a stone, and so it goes from you and doth not break, but if you lay it upon a pillow you may presently 1break it with a hammer. The Word is compared to a hammer, yea, but we must labour to lay the hearts of people upon the pillow (as it were) of Love, upon the Grace of God in the Gospel, and that's the way to break their hearts; there are none so bound to God as those that are bound to him by Love, those that are bound to God by fear, that hath not Love mixed withal, their bonds will not hold, they will seek quickly to break the bonds of fear; there's no men (I say) that are held to God by the bonds of fear but they will seek after any occasions to break those bonds, and if they can but get any opportunity to get themselves out of those bonds, they will, and commonly at last they do break them and get themselves out of the bonds of fear: but now those that are held by bonds of Love, they are held for ever unto God.
Whatsoever is to be thought of this story, yet certainly there's no such bonds as the bonds of Love to draw the hearts of people unto God. Have you to deal with stony hearts? the way it is to lay them upon the soft pillow of the Gospel, and so you may break them; lay a stone upon a stone, and so it goes from you and doth not break, but if you lay it upon a pillow you may presently 1break it with a hammer. The Word is compared to a hammer, yea, but we must labor to lay the hearts of people upon the pillow (as it were) of Love, upon the Grace of God in the Gospel, and that's the way to break their hearts; there are none so bound to God as those that are bound to him by Love, those that are bound to God by fear, that hath not Love mixt withal, their bonds will not hold, they will seek quickly to break the bonds of fear; there's no men (I say) that are held to God by the bonds of fear but they will seek after any occasions to break those bonds, and if they can but get any opportunity to get themselves out of those bonds, they will, and commonly at last they do break them and get themselves out of the bonds of fear: but now those that are held by bonds of Love, they are held for ever unto God.