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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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I beseech you observe this Note, When men cast off the sweet of their sin, by the sweet of the Love of God, then they will never return to their sin again. Oh! but if it be only the bitterness of the Law, of punishment, that makes them cast off sin, they will be ready to turn to their sin again, as a dog will return to the vomit, as a dog casts out the vomit merely in regard of the pain he doth feel; but 1when it is cast out by the sweet of Love, when one sweet enters for another, such hold on their way. Austin hath a notable expression for that in the 9. Book of his Confessions, about the beginning, speaking of a swee• ⟨p. 69⟩of sin, Thou Lord (saith he) diddest cast out those sweetnesses, 2and thou diddest enter in thy self instead of them, who art more sweet than any pleasure whatsoever. And it was from hence that he held on so in his way, because God casting out the sweet of sin, instead of that sweet he had by sin before did himself (I say) enter into the soul, that was more sweet to Austin's soul than all other sweetnesses whatsoever. Oh! saith he afterwards, The sweet it is to want those sweetnesses, when he had the Love of God come in instead of whatsoever sweetness he had before. No marvel though Grace be so persevering, and we read 3so much of perseverance, especially in the times of the Gospel, because that there's none truly converted unto God but they have that sweet come into their souls through Love, that is more delightful to them than all the sweet they had by sin before.
I beseech you observe this Note, When men cast off the sweet of their sin, by the sweet of the Love of God, then they will never return to their sin again. Oh! but if it be only the bitterness of the Law, of punishment, that makes them cast off sin, they will be ready to turn to their sin again, as a dog will return to the vomit, as a dog casts out the vomit meerly in regard of the pain he doth feel; but 1when it is cast out by the sweet of Love, when one sweet enters for another, such hold on their way. Austin hath a notable expression for that in the 9. Book of his Confessions, about the beginning, speaking of a swee