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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 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 the Fourth Meditation is this, That there is more evil in the least sin, than there can be good in whatsoever all the Creatures in the world can tender to thee Resolve upon this: this is a certain principle that cannot be denied: There is more evil in the least sin, than there can be good in all that all the Creatures in the world can tender to thee.
And then Fifthly, That it is best for me to do that now, which I would wish I had done if I were now to die. Put that Meditation into the scale; Art thou in suspense, hanging this way or that way, whether fully to come off of those ways of sin that thou art upon, or no? Put this Fifth thing into the scale, It is best for me now to do that that I would wish I had done if I were now to die: This will be a mighty thing to weigh down abundance of temptations that may be put into the other scale; and so thou mayest come to a determination. They are in suspense.
And then Fifthly, That it is best for me to do that now, which I would wish I had done if I were now to die. Put that Meditation into the scale; Art thou in suspence, hanging this way or that way, whether fully to come off of those waies of sin that thou art upon, or no? Put this Fifth thing into the scale, It is best for me now to do that that I would wish I had done if I were now to die: This wil be a mighty thing to weigh down abundance of temptations that may be put into the other scale; and so thou maiest come to a determination. They are in suspence.
The old Latin reads it, My People they hang in a kind of hope that I will return, and that all may be well with them at 1last; that though they do thus and thus, yet all may be well with them at last: God hath often delivered them out of great afflictions, and why may not he deliver them still? And so they hang in expectation of Gods coming to them. So they make the word that is here translated, [Backsliding] to be a returning, a returning of God, [They would have me to return first] And so I confess the word