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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 12 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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But then there's a Third thing here; That is, Increasing lies in regard of Practice, still following after 1new vanities, if they find not satisfaction in one they are not moved thereby to seek the true God that they may have satisfaction, but seek to have satisfaction in other things: Oh! let's consider thus; I find no satisfaction in this, yea, but is it not because I forsake the Lord God, 2in whom there is all satisfaction? let me repair to God, and in him I shall find satisfaction. No, but they take another course; I have not satisfaction in this thing, then I'll seek to have satisfaction in another thing, and so they go from one false way to another, and increase lies in this sense; I will have new devises to shift off Truth; the consciences of men will not be put off with old shifts, they have satisfied their consciences a while with one ⟨p. 211⟩shift, yea, but conscience will not be put off long with that, but they must have another, and when conscience 3comes to apprehend the weakness of that, then it must have another; Oh; take heed of being inventive for the satisfying of conscience. It follows; They have increased lies and desolation.
But then there's a Third thing here; That is, Encreasing lyes in regard of Practice, still following after 1new vanities, if they find not satisfaction in one they are not mov'd thereby to seek the true God that they may have satisfaction, but seek to have satisfaction in other things: Oh! let's consider thus; I find no satisfaction in this, yea, but is it not because I forsake the Lord God, 2in whom there is all satisfaction? let me repair to God, and in him I shall find satisfaction. No, but they take another course; I have not satisfaction in this thing, then I'le seek to have satisfaction in another thing, and so they go from one false way to another, and encrease lyes in this sense; I will have new devises to shift off Truth; the consciences of men will not be put off with old shifts, they have satisfied their consciences a while with one