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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 12
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.
is an argument of a gracious heart. As it i• an argument that that flesh is full of life that is sensible of the least touch;1 so of a heart that that is full of grace when it i• sensible of the least fruit of Gods displeasure. But when men and women are in such a disposition, that except God strike them in some terrible manner they are not sensible of his displeasure, this is a sign that they have brawny and hard hearts of their own.
is an argument of a gracious heart. As it i• an argument that that flesh is ful of life that is sensible of the least touch;1 so of a heart that that is full of grace when it i• sensible of the least fruit of Gods displeasure. But when men and women are in such a disposition, that except God strike them in some terrible manner they are not sen••ble of his displeasure, this is a sign that they have brawny and hard hearts of their own.
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Obs. 4 Fourthly, Though carnal hearts do slight and contemn Gods displeasure in little things, yet this displeasure and wrath •f God in little things, will eat them out at last. It will bring them down, it will destroy them if it be neglected. You know in Exod. 8.25. that judgment of the flies brought down the spirit of Pharaoh more than all the other judgment• before: he said before that he would let the people go, but he never bad them go till then. God is able to bring down the stoutest, the proudest spirit upon the face of the earth by little things. He can eat out the heart of the strongest wood by this little worm, and so by any little judgment of his, he can bring down the stoutest and proudest spirit in the world.