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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 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 ⟨p. 125⟩hath something in it that signifies Returning: But those that are skilful in the tongues say, It is not used in a good sense, but in an evil; it's rather a going from, than a returning. But yet, as the old Latin hath it, The hope for Gods returning, and that things may be well, is the cause of the hardening of many hearts in the ways of sin; they hang as it were in the Air, thinking that it may be well with them, and that things may not prove so bad as they hear: But cursed is that hope of comfort that hath nothing else to ground upon, but only, that it may be things are not so bad as they hear out of the Word. But it follows; Though they called them to the most High, yet none at all would exalt him.