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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.
The Fifth Ingredient in his prayer it was, The acknowledgement 1of the mercy that he had received, and of the truth of God in fulfilling Promises; and both ads much strength to prayer, to take notice of what God hath done for us, to take notice how God hath fulfilled his Word in great measure for us: when we are praying, we many times are sensible only of what we would have, but not of what we receive; and the vehemency of our desires after what we would have, doth take away our apprehensions, and hinders our acknowledgement of the mercies we have had already; but when thou comest to prayer, whatsoever thy condition be, though in never such great straits, yet acknowledge what thou hast already, be willing to praise God in the lowest condition that thou art in.
The Fifth Ingredient in his prayer it was, The acknowledgment 1of the mercy that he had received, and of the truth of God in fulfilling Promises; and both ads much strength to prayer, to take notice of what God hath done for us, to take notice how God hath fulfil'd his Word in great measure for us: when we are praying, we many times are sensible only of what we would have, but not of what we receive; and the vehemencie of our desires after what we would have, doth take away our apprehensions, and hinders our acknowledgment of the mercies we have had already; but when thou comest to prayer, whatsoever thy condition be, though in never such great straits, yet acknowledg what thou hast already, be willing to praise God in the lowest condition that thou art in.
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