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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Keep Mercy and Judgment:
Keep it, not only do some acts of Mercy and Judgment, 1but keep it.
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Many men in some good moods (observe it) Oh how 1pitiful are they! how merciful are they! but come to them at another time, and Oh! how ridged are they then! Oh! how sour are they! how bitter, how cruel! how harsh are they! We have found it so by experience, you can say, such a man, Oh! what sweet converse had we together, and what a sweet tempered man he was, how loving, how meek, how gentle, how pitiful! But come to him now, how harsh, and how rugged in his expressions, and extreme bitter, mightily turned as if he were not the man; keep Mercy, keep it. Doth God at any time melt thy heart, and make thee apprehensive of thy need of mercy? doth thy heart begin to bleed towards thy Brethren? Oh! keep it, keep this temper; the Lord keep this in the thoughts and purposes of thy heart for ever, Oh take heed of change of heart. It should be the care of Christians, not only to do that that is good, but to keep their hearts in such a constant frame. Oh that some of you would but call to mind the dales of old, Was there not a time that your hearts did melt towards your brethren, and had sweet converse and communion with them, what's become of those spirits now? Oh! turn to that gracious, sweet, temper again, and if ever God bring you to that temper again, keep it; Consider what is it that hath changed my heart, what hath brought me to it; now if God doth 2