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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 6: VER. 6.
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 Note from the Connection is this, That in our turnings to God, we must look to our special sins, and reform them. 1It's not enough for men and women to turn to God, and leave some gross sins; But is there any sin more special ⟨p. 296⟩than another, that you have lived in before your turning unto God? Reform in that sin above all. A man or woman can never have any sure argument that their Repentance is true, though they have left many sins, if they have not left their special sins; there's some special sin that thou hast lived in, what sayest thou to that?
The Note from the Connexion is this, That in our turnings to God, we must look to our special sins, and reform them. 1It's not enough for men and women to turn to God, and leave some gross sins; But is there any sin more special ⟨p. 296⟩than another, that you have lived in before your turning unto God? Reform in that sin above all. A man or woman can never have any sure argument that their Repentance is true, though they have left many sins, if they have not left their special sins; there's som special sin that thou hast liv'd in, what saiest thou to that?
- 1Obs. 1.
Then Secondly, It is nothing for people to reform in Gods Worship, except they reform also in the duties of the Second Table, 1that's wonderful. The duties of the Second Table, Mercy and Judgment, Turn to thy God, and keep Mercy and Judgment. Many men and women that seem to be forward in duties of Instituted Worship, which is very good; we are to honour God, God is jealous in that business; but now, together with that, if we be not conscionable in the duties of the Second Table, of Mercy and Judgment too, it's nothing, all will vanish and come to nothing except thou livest righteously and mercifully with men also, as well as worship God; do not think to put off thy conscience with the duties of Worship, except thou doest keep Mercy and Judgment, that's more General.