A77979:1014
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 9
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.
If His rebukes work us to a humiliation for our sins, a resignation of our selves up unto Gods dispose, and to accept of the punishment of our iniquities; this is an argument God ⟨p. 452⟩aims at our sins, and not at our persons in His rebukes, and so in them our good and not our hurt: But 'tis usual for wicked men in their rebukes to cry out of their sins, 'twas their sins that brought this upon them. But here the difference is thus discerned.
First, They cry out of their sins but per accidence, but of the judgement per se, as we use to say, the judgement troubles them more than their sins the cause of the judgment: but the godly cry out of their sin• per se, and of the judgment per accidence, their sin troubles them.
Secondly, A child of God more desires the sanctification of an affliction than the removing of it; but the wicked care not for removing the cause of judgment [even sin] so the smart the correction may be taken off. It follows.