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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 8: VER. 8.
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 Thirdly, It's nothing but Gods free mercy that 1keeps us from being destroyed; le's the Lords mercy that we are not consumed.
- 1Obs. 3.
In the Fourth place, Sin puts God to a stand; How shall 1I do it? It brings disorder into the world; God must set his infinite wisdom on work to bring thing about to his own glory, sin hath brought disorder and confusion; Now saith God, I must set mind infinite wisdom on work to bring glory out of this confusion. If God hath any good intentions to thee, know, they sin lays such difficulties in Gods way to find out a way for thee, as puts ⟨p. 143⟩him to a kind of stand, as thus, For God to find out a way that all the wrong that sin hath done to him should 2be made up, and yet thy soul should be saved, 'tis the hardest thing in the world: Thou canst commit sin easily, but (I say) when the sin is committed, for God then to find out a way that all that wrong that's done to him should be made up (as it must be, for otherwise all the disorder will not be brought into order) and yet thy soul saved, it's the hardest thing in the world; and were not God, a God infinite in wisdom, it would put him so to it, as he were never able to find out a way. God doth seem as it were to be at a stand, How shall I do to save these sinners, and yet not to wrong my self? Oh! this should humble us for our sins: As if a child should do so much evil as to bring himself into such briars and 3troubles, as that his tender father being affected with his sad condition would fain help him, but if he doth help him, he is put to abundance of difficulties for the helping of him, and he is fain to beat his brains, and study ways and means how he shall come to save this his child from utter undoing; now if the child hath any ingenuity in him, he will not only think, it's no great matter, so be it I be delivered, Oh! but this will break his heart, Oh! what troubles have I brought my father into? It is thus with us in reference to God, if we look upon God thus as personating a man.