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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 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.
First, That Gods people may be in danger of as sore and great 1evils as the vilest and worst of men, their sin may have such aggravations upon them, as may make them liable for the present in this world to as sore & great evils as the worst of mankind. For ⟨p. 157⟩indeed, the aggravations of the sins of the Saints are such as makes their sins, if God should deal with them according to a Covenant of Works, and not in a Covenant of Grace, their condition would be sadder than the most wicked and vile: In Amos, 9. 7. saith God there, Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me? You have had (indeed) deliverances, and so have they, And are you not unto me as the children of the Ethiopians? What are you better than the children of the Ethiopians unto me, if I should look upon you as in your selves; Therefore in Isa. 1. 10. The Princes of Judah are called the Princes of Sodom; and the people, the people of Gomorrah: And in Lament. 4. 6. The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom. Ezek. 16. 48. As I live, saith the Lord, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she, nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou, and thy daughters. [As I live] God swears to 2it, that Sodom was not guilty of such great sins.
First, That Gods people may be in danger of as sore and great 1evils as the vilest and worst of men, their sin may have such agravations upon them, as may make them liable for the present in this world to as sore & great evils as the worst of mankind. For ⟨p. 157⟩indeed, the aggravations of the sins of the Saints are such as makes their sins, if God should deal with them according to a Covenant of Works, and not in a Covenant of Grace, their condition would be sadder than the most wicked and vile: In