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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 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.
This is as cross a Note unto a carnal heart almost as any thing, I mean to one that gives way to the lusts of his passion, for he thinks himself only magnanimous when he can vent his anger; and were it not for the thought that he thinks he should be a fool, he would forbear his anger; it is not thy honour, but it makes thee base in the eyes of thy servants, children, and wife, when thou comest 1into thy house like a mad fool, it makes them look upon thee, and despise thee, when they see thee thus drunken in thy passion.
This is as cross a Note unto a carnal heart almost as any thing, I mean to one that gives way to the lusts of his passion, for he thinks himself only magnanimous when he can vent his anger; and were it not for the thought that he thinks he should be a fool, he would forbear his anger; it is not thy honor, but it makes thee base in the eyes of thy servants, children, and wife, when thou comest 1into thy house like a mad fool, it makes them look upon thee, and despise thee, when they see thee thus drunken in thy passion.
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Secondly, Such are the provocations of God caused by sin, that if God were like to you, sinners could not be forborne; as if 1God should say, The truth is, your sins were such as were not I a God, it were impossible that I could bear; for so it is (though we think not of it) the evil of sin is so great that if all the patience that were in all the men that ever was since the world began were put into one man, if he knew the great evil that there is in sin, he would destroy the world, he would not bear, if his heart were but holy, as here God saith himself.
Secondly, Such are the provocations of God caused by sin, that if God were like to you, sinners could not be forborn; as if