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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 5: VER. 5.
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.
From whence the Observation is, A stout heart cares 1not whither it goes, rather than it will return to God. As the Prodigal will rather go to the Swine to feed upon husks, than to his father; like some stout children, they care not what miseries they suffer rather than they will come and humble themselves to their parents, They will hang themselves, and drown themselves, and seek their fortune (as they use to say) rather than be persuaded to come in and submit themselves; No, never as long as they live, though they die, yet they will not, and thus their hearts are stout, and while they think they are stout against their parents they are stout against God too, yet God hath ways to bring mens stout hearts to yield.
From whence the Observation is, A stout heart cares 1not whither it goes, rather than it will return to God. As the Prodigal will rather go to the Swine to feed upon husks, than to his father; like some stout children, they care not what miseries they suffer rather than they will come and humble themselves to their parents, They will hang themselves, and drown themselves, and seek their fortune (as they use to say) rather than be perswaded to come in and submit themselves; No, never as long as they live, though they die, yet they will not, and thus their hearts are stout, and while they think they are stout against their parents they are stout against God too, yet God hath waies to bring mens stout hearts to yeeld.
- 1Obs. 2.
Thirdly, A stubborn heart though God be in any way of mercy, God calling them to ways of mercy, yet if any thing 1crosses them they will foolishly and desperately wish their return to their former condition of misery. If you make any thing that God doth, an argument to a stubborn heart for duty, if it pleases him not, he will reject all that's done for him and say, he had rather be as he was before, let me go into Egypt again; stubborn hearts if they meet with any cross in their way, this is their unthankfulness, that because they are vexed and crossed in some one thing they will (I say) foolishly and desperately wish that they were in the the condition that heretofore they have been in.