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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 6 › Verse 2
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Obs. 3 That the time of Gods reviving his people, is neither long in Gods nor the Saints account; 'Tis but two days, the third day we shall live. Isa. 31.5.1 As birds flying, so will the Lord be swift to help Jerusalem; He hath promised not to contend for ever: and in 1 Peter, 1.6.2 Though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness, through many tribulations: in the Original 'tis, If now, if need be, so that there is great need of afflictions before God sends them. So 2 Cor. 4.17. afflictions they are for a moment a very little time: Faith, that lifts up the soul upon two hills, where it seeth Heaven on the one, and the valley of Achor in the middle, and it so works in the soul that it causeth it to be patient in suffering the greatest trials, it is a sign of a distempered spirit, to complain of the length of an affliction, a gracious heart desires more the sanctifying it than taking it away; we might have been swallowed up in the gulf of eternal misery. Hag. 2.6. yet a little while and I will shake Heaven &c. But it was between five and six hundred years before this shaking came, viz. at the coming of Christ; our impatience make affliction seem long.
Obs. 3 That the time of Gods reviving his people, is neither long in Gods nor the Saints account; 'Tis but two daies, the third day we shal live. Isa. 31.5.1 As birds flying, so will the Lord be swift to help Jerusalem; He hath promised not to contend for ever: and in 1 Peter, 1.6.2 Though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness, through many tribulations: in the Original 'tis, If now, if need be, so that there is great need of afflictions before God sends them. So