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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.
and that love that will serve for other things, certainly will not serve Christ. He loves thee too little (saith Augustan) that loves any thing besides thee, who loves not that thing for thee. You may love Wife, and Children, and Friends, yea, but you must love them all for God; when you see any thing lovely in Husband, or Wife, or children, or Friends, yea, but think this is but a beam of the loveliness of God. And thus I have endeavoured now to raise your hearts to God by Love; the Lord hath cast Bonds of Love upon your souls, On! that by the Ministry of his Word this day these Bonds may be somewhat strengthened, that you may feel some strength in these Bonds, that you may go away with your hearts more strongly united to the Love of God than ever. ⟨p. 87⟩I drew them with the Cords of a man, With Bonds of Love, and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their Jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
and that love that will serve for other things, certainly will not serve Christ. He loves thee too little (saith Augustan) that loves any thing besides thee, who loves not that thing for thee. You may love Wife, and Children, and Friends, yea, but you must love them all for God; when you see any thing lovely in Husband, or Wife, or children, or Friends, yea, but think this is but a beam of the loveliness of God. And thus I have endeavored now to raise your hearts to God by Love; the Lord hath cast Bonds of Love upon your souls, On! that by the Ministry of his Word this day these Bonds may be somewhat strengthened, that you may feel some strength in these Bonds, that you may go away with your hearts more strongly united to the Love of God than ever. ⟨p. 87⟩I drew them with the Cords of a man, With Bonds of Love, and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their Jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Part of the last Sermon it was spent in opening unto you these Bonds of Love. And showing,