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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.
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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 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.
- 1Obs. 2.
Thirdly, It's a good way to exercise saith in Gods mercy, to look upon God as a God beyond us, beyond any creature; for 1so this is therefore expressed, to the end that the people of God might exercise faith in beholding God as a God; that's the way to help thee in thy faith; wouldest thou exercise faith upon God? look upon him as a God, […] do not conceive him to be as a man; It's […], […] […] upon him sometimes as a compassion at man is a little help, ⟨p. 175⟩