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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 7: VER. 7.
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.
VER. 7.
My people are bent to back-sliding, &c.
IT may be sometimes they begin to reform, but they are quickly off again, for there is a principle of Apostasy 1in them, They are bent to back-sliding; If they do any thing in the way of Reformation, it is upon some external motive; but their hearts are another way; They are like a bough of a Tree that is bent contrary to the Nature of it, by an external force, it may be for the present yields such a way, but there's an inclination, a propension in the Bough to go another way, the way that its own nature carries it unto. Thus it was often with Israel, upon some extraordinary work of God they would do such and such things, but they were as a deceitful bow that soon starts back.
IT may be sometimes they begin to reform, but they are quickly off again, for there is a principle of Apostasie 1in them, They are bent to back-sliding; If they do any thing in the way of Reformation, it is upon some external motive; but their hearts are another way; They are like a bough of a Tree that is bent contrary to the Nature of it, by an external force, it may be for the present yeelds such a way, but there's an inclination, a propension in the Bough to go another way, the way that its own nature carries it unto. Thus it was often with Israel, upon some extraordinary work of God they would do such and such things, but they were as a deceitfl bow that soon starts back.