A77979:1254
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.
Note, That every seeking of God is not sufficient; it must be early Obs. 6 seeking of Him.1
- 1Early seeking acceptable.
Now men are said to seek God early.
When?
1. It is, in the morning of their years; 1when young ones shall make this text true in the letter of it, it is wonderful pleasing to God: It may be God laid his hand upon thee in thy youth, and then God revealed the knowledge of Himself to thee, thy misery by sin, thy remedy in his Son, so that the Churches prayer, was thine, Psal. 90.14. O satisfy us early with thy mercy: How many sins are by this prevented? Your father, or master (if godly) would give a world (if they had it) that they had begun sooner to serve the Lord, and to seek him early; therefore bless God who hath put it into your hearts to seek him: John was the young Disciple, and he in his youth began to know Christ; and of all the Disciples none had that respect showed them as John had: for it is said that he lay in Christs bosom, and Christ loved him.