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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 4: VER. 4.
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.
Doth it become the Captain of our salvation in his seeking of God to weep? know then, it is not unbecoming any man or woman: Are you of the seed of Jacob? then when you would prevail with God labour to work your hearts even so as you may express your affections, outwardly labour to do it in prayer, it will help to break thy heart: As a broken heart will cause outward expressions, so outward expressions will be a further cause to break the heart. And work thy heart by all arguments thou canst to come to that tenderness and softness, that thou mayest be like the Captain of thy Salvation, when thou art crying to God to cry even with tears before him, and when thy heart is so broken with tears, then exercise thy faith upon the prayer ⟨p. 246⟩of Jesus Christ. Now it is through the Spirit of Jesus Christ that my heart doth thus break, but I do not rest upon these, God forbid that I should rest upon my enlargements, upon my breakings; No, but I will rest upon the breakings of Jesus Christ, who in the days of his flesh did send up mighty cries with tears to God, and was heard, he prevailed. —He made supplication.1
Doth it become the Captain of our salvation in his seeking of God to weep? know then, it is not unbecoming any man or woman: Are you of the seed of Jacob? then when you would prevail with God labor to work your hearts even so as you may express your affections, outwardly labor to do it in prayer, it will help to break thy heart: As a broken heart will cause outward expressions, so outward expressions will be a further cause to break the heart. And work thy heart by all arguments thou canst to come to that tenderness and softness, that thou mayest be like the Captain of thy Salvation, when thou art crying to God to cry even with tears before him, and when thy heart is so broken with tears, then exercise thy faith upon the prayer ⟨p. 246⟩of Jesus Christ. Now it is through the Spirit of Jesus Christ that my heart doth thus break, but I do not rest upon these, God forbid that I should rest upon my enlargements, upon my breakings; No, but I will rest upon the breakings of Jesus Christ, who in the daies of his flesh did send up mighty cries with tears to God, and was heard, he prevail'd. —He made supplication.1