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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
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Obs. 6 Sixthly, God hath secret judgments to bring upon a people, upon particular persons; ways of judgment secretly that they little think of. In 2 King. 3.17. Thus saith the Lord, you shall not see the ⟨p. 483⟩wind, neither shall you see rain, yet the valleys shall be filled with water: There shall be a filling with water though you see neither wind nor rain; you shall not know whence it cometh yet the valleys shall be filled with water. So, many times there is the judgment of God against a people, against a family, against a particular person, and no body can tell from whence it comes. A• God hath many secret blessings for his people, so He hath secret curse• against the ungodly. Let us take heed of secret sins,1 for God hath secret wrath to avenge secret sins. Many of you that find the hand of God out against you and you do not know how; do you examine your own hearts whether there be not many secret sins in you against the Lord. It was so at this time when God came to be a moth against Ephraim, in 2 King. 17.9. speaking of that very time that this prophecy doth relate unto, wherein God was a moth unto Ephraim, the text saith there,2 that the children of Israel did secretly that which was not right in the eyes of the Lord: Therefore just was God in this, to be a moth, to have His displeasure to come secretly. Take you heed of secret sins, lest God consume you by secret judgments.
Obs. 6 Sixtly, God hath secr•t judgments to bring up•n a people, upon particular persons; waies of judgment secretly that they little think of. In 2 King. 3.17. Thus saith the Lord, you shall not see the ⟨p. 483⟩