A30575:323
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.
Christ professes his yoke is easy, his burden light; Oh! let not ours be hard and heavy then, If Christs be easy; and especially in these days of our Fasting and Prayer, Oh! let us be very careful to lift up the yoke from our brethren as much as possibly we can without sin, Isa. 58. 16. Is not this the Fast (saith God) that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, that ye break every yoke ⟨p. 100⟩&c. and in the 9. verse, Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am: If thou take from the midst of thee the yoke. Still mark how God urges this, when you come to fast; Is this the Fast that I require, to do thus and thus? no saith he, but to undo the burden, and to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke: and again, if you shall do so, Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and be shall say, Here I am. God stands much upon this in the days of our fasting, that we lay no burdens and yokes upon our brethren; but that we do possibly what we can to take off yokes, that we may be able to appeal to God, Lord, 2thou knowest that I do what possibly I can, and I pray that thou wouldest direct me to do any thing to make the lives of those that I believe to be faithful and conscientious to be comfortable to them.
Christ professes his yoke is easie, his burden light; Oh! let not ours be hard and heavy then, If Christs be easie; and especially in these daies of our Fasting and Prayer, Oh! let us be verie careful to lift up the yoke from our brethren as much as possibly we can without sin, Isa. 58. 16. Is not this the Fast (saith God) that I have chosen, To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, that ye break everie yoke