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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 15
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.
GOD repeats it again, which notes, 1.1 The glory of the work, that he is not ashamed of what he hath done, (Gods people ought for to be like God in this, let their actions be warrantable, such as they may with comfort own and stand to, yea suffer for, if it so come to pass, not like the proverb to set a Town on fire, and run away from it, leaving others to quench it) 2. It notes the Irresistibility of Gods work, as if he should say, let any try whether they can oppose me. 3. And chiefly it implies, I will bring them into captivity and there I'll leave them.
GOD repeats it again, which notes, 1.1 The glory of the work, that he is not ashamed of what he hath done, (Gods people ought for to be like God in this, let their actions be warrantable, such as they may with comfort own and stand to, yea suffer for, if it so come to pass, not like the proverb to set a Town on fire, and run away from it, leaving others to quench it) 2. It notes the Irresistibility of Gods work, as if he should say, let any try whether they can oppose me. 3. And chiefly it implies, I will bring them into captivity and there I'le leave them.
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Whence note,1 That 'tis a heavy judgment for God to tear and wound a people, and then lo leave them: God saith if they return not, I will rend and tear them, make them very miserable and in that condition will I leave them, I'll be a stranger to them, and will not own them. Ezek. 22.20. I will gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there. God in another place promiseth to be with His people in the fire and in the water; but there is a time that Gods people may so provoke God, that he will bring them into the fire and there leave them: when the Philistines fell upon Saul, it was a sad time to him, because God had left him: Oh how terrible was it when God left Christ upon the Cross but for a little while! This we all deserve, and this is the portion of the damned in Hell: While the Judg is present upon the Bench the Malefactor hath hope,