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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 1: VERS. 1.
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And then secondly, But would you know whether God would love you? the readiest way for you to know whether God will love you, yea or no,
It is first, To raise up your faith, if you are able, upon such grounds as these are, Upon the consideration of his love to his people when they were unworthy.
And then secondly, In quietness and meekness of spirit to lay thy self before the Lord as an object of his pity. If thou doest not think thy self worthy to be an object of 1love, yet lay thy heart before God as an object of pity, and there resolve to wait till the time of love shall come, till God shall make known that his heart is towards thee for good, 'tis not the way for thee to be froward and vexing because of thy unworthiness, meanness, poverty, and baseness, and so to determine that he will not love thee therefore; but, I say, the way for thee to have the sense of Gods love, is this, When thou seest there is no worthiness in thee why he should love thee, yet there is enough in thee to make thy self an object of his pity.
And then secondly, In quietness and meekness of spirit to lay thy self before the Lord as an object of his pity. If thou doest not think thy self worthy to be an object of 1love, yet lay thy heart before God as an object of pity, and there resolve to wait til the time of love shall come, till God shall make known that his heart is towards thee for good, 'tis not the way for thee to be froward and vexing because of thy unworthiness, meanness, poverty, and baseness, and so to determine that he will not love thee therefore; but, I say, the way for thee to have the sence of Gods love, is this, When thou seest there is no worthiness in thee why he should love thee, yet there is enough in thee to make thy self an object of his pity.