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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 5: VER. 5.
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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.
Thirdly, A stubborn heart though God be in any way of mercy, God calling them to waies 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 vext and crost 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.
- 1Obs. 3.
Oh! thus it is with many of us, how foolishly, how 1wickedly have we thought and said it was better with us heretofore then now, let us return to our former condition! This is thy folly and thy desperate wickedness; But saith the text, He shall not return, though he thinks of returning; as if the holy Ghost should say, do not please your selves to think it is but to return to Egypt,