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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.
Then Fourthly, If you do not prevail by love, They will do no more than just needs must; and this is the 1reason indeed why Hypocrites do so little for God, God hath never gained their hearts by Love, but only by fear, and therefore they will do no more for God than they must of necessity; whereas (as I said before) love never propounds bounds.
- 1Why Hypocrites are hide-bound towards God
And then Fifthly, If you do not get them by Love, they watch for all opportunities to fling off. Now what a poor gain is this, to gain one with a deal of trouble, and for him to do what I would have him, and yet to hate me, and to do no more than needs must, and then to ⟨p. 78⟩watch for all opportunities to appear against me? Where fore my Brethren, for the close of this Note, let us follow after Love, and provoke one another to Love, you will find sweetness in your own Love, and sweetness 1that you get by Love, in the very exercise of Love you will find sweetness, and then the Love that you get by others you will find that sweet, and you will find it so much the sweeter because you get it by Love.
And then Fiftly, If you do not get them by Love, they watch for all opportunities to fling off. Now what a poor gain is this, to gain one with a deal of trouble, and for him to do what I would have him, and yet to hate me, and to do no more than needs must, and then to ⟨p. 78⟩wath for all opportunities to appear against me? Where fore my Brethren, for the close of this Note, let us follow after Love, and provoke one another to Love, you will find sweetness in your own Love, and sweetness