Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

3. THE Work of recovering Backsliders or Believers from under their Spiritual Decays, is an Act of Sovereign Grace, wrought in us by virtue of Divine Promises; out of this Eater cometh meat. Because Believers are liable to such Declensions, Backslidings, and Decays, God hath provided and given unto us great and precious Promises of a Recovery, if we duly apply our selves unto the Means of it. One of the places only wherein they are recorded, I shall here call over, and explain, Hosea 14. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. O Israel, return unto the Lord they God, for thou hast fallen by thine Iniquity: Take with you words, and turn with the Lord, say unto him, Take away all Iniquity, and receive […] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips, &c. I will heal their Backslidings, I will love them freely, for mine Anger is turned away from him: I will be as the dew unto Israel; be shall grow as the Lilly, and cast out his Roots as Lebanon. His Branches shall spread, and his Beauty shall be as the Olive Tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the Corn, and grow as the Vine, the scent thereof shall be as the Wine of Lebanon: […]. Wall ⟨p. 69⟩say, What have I to do any more with Idols? I have heard him, and observed him, I am like a green Fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.

3. THE Work of recovering Backsliders or Believers from under their Spiritual Decays, is an Act of Soveraign Grace, wrought in us by vertue of Divine Promises; out of this Eater cometh meat. Because Belivers are liable to such Declensions, Backslidings, and Decays, God hath provided and given unto us great and precions Promises of a Recovery, if we duly apply our selves unto the Means of it. One of the places only wherein they are recorded, I shall here call over, and explain, Hosea 14. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. O Israel, return unto the Lord they God, for thou hast fallen by thine Iniquit•: Take with you words, and turn with the Lord, say unto him, Take away all Iniquity, and receive 〈…〉 graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips, &c. I will heal their Backslidings, I will love them freely, for mine Anger is turned away from him: I will be as the dew unto Israel; be shall grow as the Lilly, and cast out his Roots as Lebanon. His Branches shall spread, and his Beauty shall be as the Olive Tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the Corn, and grow as the Vine, the scent thereof shall be as the Wine of Lebanon: . Wall