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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.
When we come to prayer, we must not have words, 1that are puffed-up words, and have little in them, but there must be as much sense of the thing that we pray for, as the words that we speak do seem to import & carry with them; many times we have great words, and little sense, and that makes our prayers to be so empty.
When we come to prayer, we must not have words, 1that are puft-up words, and have little in them, but there must be as much sence of the thing that we pray for, as the words that we speak do seem to import & carry with them; many times we have great words, and little sence, and that makes our prayers to be so empty.
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And then the next thing in his prayer it was, The strong 1arguments that he did use with God; though it's true, That what we can say to God cannot move God, yet it may move our own hearts, and God would have us to use strong arguments in prayer; And thou saidest (in ver. 12.) I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand on the Sea which cannot be numbered for multitude. As if he should say, Lord, how will thy promise be fulfilled? diddest thou not say that my seed should be as the sand of the Sea? now if the mother and children be cut off, what will become of thy Promise?
And then the next thing in his prayer it was, The strong 1arguments that he did use with God; though it's true, That what we can say to God cannot move God, yet it may move our own hearts, and God would have us to use strong arguments in prayer; And thou saidest (in ver. 12.) I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand on the Sea which cannot be numbred for multitude. As if he should say, Lord, how will thy promise be fulfill'd? didest thou not say that my seed should be as the sand of the Sea? now if the mother and children be cut off, what will become of thy Promise?