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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
The Observations:
When we have stirrings between Mercy and Wrath, the stirrings of Mercy should rather prevail, the bent of our hearts should 1rather be in them. When we have workings this way and that way; which is the most benign side? the arguments had need be very much the stronger for wrath, than for Mercy; If the arguments have any equality, or near any equality in them, certainly the arguments for mercy should prevail: they do so with Gods heart; Oh! be you like God in this.
When we have stirrings between Mercy and Wrath, the stirrings of Mercy should rather prevail, the bent of our hearts should 1rather be in them. When we have workings this way and that way; which is the most benign side? the arguments had need be very much the stronger for wrath, than for Mercie; If the arguments have any equality, or neer any equalitie in them, certainly the arguments for mercie should prevail: they do so with Gods heart; Oh! be you like God in this.
- 1Obs. 3.
And then Secondly, When there are stirrings with God, and temptations to draw to sin, the stirrings for God likewise 1should prevail. Have not you found it thus many times in your selves? you have had stirrings in your hearts to such and such duties, and at the same time there hath been temptations coming to such and such sins; now I put it to your Consciences, as in the Name of God, Cannot you tell divers times how the temptations to sin hath got the day? you have been rather carried from God to your base sinful lusts, and your Conscience hath been overcome; Conscience hath pulled, and drawings of the Spirit have been very powerful, but yet temptations have been more powerful, and you have gone that way; Oh! be ashamed of this, that it should ever be said, That at such a time there were stirrings with Conscience and Temptations, Temptations and Conscience stirring together, yet that Temptation should overcome Conscience.