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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.
And Ninthly, Any Opinion that will give them a liberty from that straitness they made profession of before, 1they are willing to embrace and entertain; if there be any practice that may give them any more liberty, they fall presently to it, and so they come to backslide. Now their actual backslidings are but a fruit of the bent of their spirits, their spirits were bent to backsliding before, and what they do now is but a fruit of the inward bent of their spirits. Let such know, that if they have no need of the ways of godliness, the ways of godliness 2have no need of them; the ways of godliness shall be justified and honoured, when they shall perish and be swept oft as filth and dung from the face of the earth. I'll leave only that Scripture with them, in Heb. 10. 38. If any man draw back, my Soul shall have no pleasure in him.
And Ninthly, Any Opinion that will give them a liberty from that straitness they made profession of before, 1they are willing to imbrace and entertain; if there be any practice that may give them any more liberty, they fall presently to it, and so they come to backslide. Now their actural backslidings are but a fruit of the bent of their spirits, their spirits were bent to backsliding before, and what they do now is but a fruit of the inward bent of their spirits. Let such know, that if they have no need of the waies of godliness, the waies of godliness