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Certain observations upon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were…Certaine observations vpon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were…
Certain observations upon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were delivered at a friends house who had broken his leg, for which meeting the author was committed to the White-Lyon by Sir Thomas Mallet late judge of assize for the county where he remaineth prisoner of Jesus Christ. By William Kiffin.Certaine observations vpon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were delivered at a friends house who had broken his legg, for which meeting the author was committed to the White-Lyon by Sir Thomas Mallet late judge of assize for the county where he remaineth prisioner of Iesvs Christ. By William Kiffin.
London: printed for William Larner, 1642
Title page typeset from the transcription.
CERTAIN OBSERVATIONS UPON HOSEA THE SECOND.CERTAINE OBSERVATIONS UPON HOSEA THE SECOND.
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 third means, let us consider that the truth of God is the portion of the Saints, if we loose truth we loose Jesus Christ, where will you have comfort, and where will you have salvation, if you loose truth? And therefore saith Solomon, Prov. 4.13. keep her, for she is thy life, and there fore David hath recourse upon all occasions to the word ⟨p. 23⟩119 Psal. 49, 50. Remember thy word made to thy Servant, (why) its my comfort in my trouble: as if he should say, I have no other companion in my troubles but it; and so in the 92. vers. of the same Psalm, saith he, except thy law had bin my delight, I should utterly have perished in mine afflictions. And therefore as worldly men compt themselves with all they have by what they have & are in the world, so let the servants of God compt themselves with what they have, & are, by nothing, but what they have in Jesus Christ, who dwells in the truth, & conveys himself through the truth into the hearts and consciences of his People, and therefore let us labour to compt it our portion, and if Naboth would rather incur the displeasure of the King, then part with the inheritance given him by his fathers. 1 Kings 21.3, 4. how much more should we be willing to incur the displeasure of all men, rather then to loose any part of the truth of Jesus Christ given unto us, and purchased for us, at so deer a rate as his own precious blood.
The third meanes, let us consider that the truth of God is the portion of the Saints, if we loose truth we loose Iesus Christ, where will you have comfort, and where will you have salvation, if you loose truth? And therefore saith Salomon, Prov. 4.13. keepe her, for she is thy life, and there fore David hath recourse upon all occasions to the word ⟨p. 23⟩119 Psal. 49, 50. Remember thy word made to thy Servant, (why) its my comfort in my trouble: as if he should say, I have no other companion in my troubles but it; and so in the 92. vers. of the same Psalme, saith he, except thy law had bin my delight, I should utterly have perished in mine afflictions. And therfore as worldly men compt themselves with all they have by what they have & are in the world, so let the servants of God compt themselves with what they have, & are, by nothing, but what they have in Iesus Christ, who dwels in the truth, & conveyes himselfe through the truth into the hearts and consciences of his People, and therefore let us labour to compt it our portion, and if Naboth would rather incurre the displeasure of the King, then part with the inheritance given him by his fathers.