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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.
Never be afraid, you that God is beginning to turn to 1himself, never be loth to part with any sweetness you had in the ways of sin, for by turning to God you shall find that sweetness in God and his ways that will be a thousand times more. Oh they are things that they love and they are loth to part with them; Yea, but when you are turned to God, God will be as lovely to you as ever any thing in the world was. If the Ice be but broken over night by the Husbandman, he comes the next 2day and it is frozen up again; but let the Sun come with his warm beams, and then it runs down with flakes, then it breaks throughout many Countries together, it breaks all at once by the beams of the Sun: And so the breaking of the heart by the terrors of the Law, it is but li• the breaking of the Ice with a pole by the Husbandm•• to give the Cattle drink, but when the Love of God co[…] to the heart, then the corruptions of the heart dissolve even as the Ice dissolves when the warm Sun comes upon […].
Never be afraid, you that God is beginning to turn to 1himself, never be loth to part with any sweetness you had in the waies of sin, for by turning to God you shall find that sweetness in God and his waies that will be a thousand times more. Oh they are things that they love and they are loth to part with them; Yea, but when you are turned to God, God will be as lovely to you as ever any thing in the world was. If the Ice be but broken over night by the Husbandman, he comes the next 2day and it is frozen up again; but let the Sun come with his warm beams, and then it runs down with flakes, then it breaks throughout many Countries together, it breaks all at once by the beams of the Sun: And so the beaking of the heart by the terrors of the Law, it is but li• the breaking of the Ice with a pole by the Husbandm•• to give the Cattel drink, but when the Love of God co〈…〉 to the heart, then the corruptions of the heart dissolve even as the Ice dissolves when the warm Sun comes upon .