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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 14
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.
Hence another observation, That God hath a righteous hand in the worst actions of men.
We cry out of men that they are thus and thus, Oh never such vile and wicked men. But you must look upon God, He hath a hand in all. The most horrid wickedness that ever was done in the world, the betraying of Christ and the crucifying of the Lord of life,1 the Scripture saith, it was done by the fore-determined counsel of God. Therefore let those that have been sensible of the tearing of their estates, and have had their husbands and their children torn from them by wicked men, let them not only cry out of such vile and ungodly men, but let them know that the Lord hath had a hand in it. Though men be wicked, yet the Lord is righteous, let them justify God in all: This is Gods glory, that He can have a hand in the most hideous wickedness in the world and yet remain righteous notwithstanding: Therefore ⟨p. 505⟩He saith here, I, even I will do it. He doth not only own it, but He would have people to take special notice that He hath a hand in all. Oh the use that we might make of this to our selves, if in all those dreadful judgments that are upon us, if in all those tearing judgments that some of our brethren have felt; we could but take notice that the hand of God hath done it. I, even I 2have done it, here is the Emphasis in this; And in this one verse here is I, four times together; Let the thing be never so hideous unto you, yet know that I am the great orderer and disposer of all, and I have some great thing to bring to pass in all this that is come upon you. And certainly though the misery be great that some parts of the Kingdom endure, yet because Gods hand is so much in it, therefore we must know that God hath some great thing to bring to pass by this that He hath begun to do amongst us.
We cry out of men that they are thus and thus, Oh never such vile and wicked men. But you must look upon God, He hath a hand in all. The most horrid wickedness that ever was done in the world, the betraying of Christ and the crucifying of the Lord of life,