A77979:1317
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 6 › Verse 1
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.
Know, that God sees further than we, and knows what is §3best for us, when the wars first began we promised our selves a present end of them, and we thought it would be best; but God saw it was not, had we had peace at the first we should not have known what to have done with it, it would even have undone us by that time.
Consider, things are no more difficult now than they §4were at the first unto God; God knows as well how to deliver ⟨p. 536⟩in the greatest straits as if there were none at all.
God usually works by contrary means, bringing light out of darkness; saving Israel in the red Sea when in the greatest danger of drowning.