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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.
It may be some of you think that your sins are not so 1great, or not greater than the sins of others, and therefore you may escape as well as they. No, you may mistake in that, God may save some that are guilty of greater sins than you, and yet damn you, damn you for sins less than the other. Gods mercy is his own; If God will destroy Admah and Zeboim eternally; who can say against Gods dealings with them? But, how shall I make thee as Admah and Zeboim? God knows how to make a difference between man and man. Let no man presume, and say, Because others commit as great sins as I, I may escape aswell as they; No, thou reckonest in this without thine Host; God may make a great difference between his dealings with them, and with thee, and do thee no wrong neither; for the mercies of God are his own.
It may be some of you think that your sins are not so 1great, or not greater than the sins of others, and therefore you may escape as well as they. No, you may mistake in that, God may save some that are guilty of greater sins than you, and yet damn you, damn you for sins less than the other. Gods mercy is his own; If God wil destroy Admah and Zeboim eternally; who can say against Gods dealings with them? But, how shall I make thee as Admah and Zeboim? God knows how to make a difference between man and man. Let no man presume, and say, Because others commit as great sins as I, I may escape aswel as they; No, thou reckonest in this without thine Host; God may make a great difference between his dealingswith them, and with thee, and do thee no wrong neither; for the mercies of God are his own.
- 1Use of Admonition.
Fourthly, Seeing God is loth to make his people like to others, 1like to the wicked and reprobates in punishments, let not them make themselves like to them in sin. Doth God put a difference between Reprobates and his People in punishment? Oh! let the Saints then labour to put a difference between themselves and such as are of the world in matter of sin, let that be no argument to them, Such and such do thus, and why may not I do so oo? that's no argument with God; I have destroyed such and such, and why may not I destroy thee? that argument will not prevail with God. Thou committest such a sin, and I have some in Hell that I sent thither for the same sin: but this argument prevails not with God: Oh! let not such an argument prevail with thee, that because such and such sin, therefore I will venture too.