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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. 4 In the sadest condition, faith makes present and real Gods reviving mercies. When their help is gone, in the mount of mans extremity will God be seen. We should reason thus, because Gods people are in great extremity, then 'tis a sign that God will arise and help them, and not despair and give over our hopes;1 as before the morning light is the thickest darkness, so let us never be discouraged at the increase of afflictions, for they show the time then hastens for deliverance; and thi• faith makes present to the soul, it shows the soul life in death, favour in frowns, love in strokes, faith seeth a great difference between the strokes of God upon the Saints and upon the wicked: that place is famous for this, Isa. 26.14. compared with the 19. They are dead, they shall not live, they are diseased, they shall not rise. When God strikes wicked men their wounds forerun death here, and eternal death hereafter, when he smites them in their cause, in their names, or estates, 'tis ⟨p. 543⟩to undo them: But now mark in the 19. verse, Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Some think that these words note the glorious condition of the Church in regard of their safety, that though men and means fail, yet faith can see deliverance in the womb of an infinite wisdom,2 power and faithfulness, Faith revives other graces when seeming dead and puts life into them, much more doth it into our dead conditions; 'tis reported of the* Crystal, that it hath such a virtue in it, that the very touching of it quickens other stones, and puts a lustre and beauty upon them. This is true of faith, it makes evil things present, far off, and good things far off, present, and herein consists the exercise of faith in a great measure, Psal. 91.7. A thousand shall fall on thy left band, and ten thousand on thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee: this is a very strange speech, that a man may be in a place where a thousand shall fall by him, and ten thousand on the side of him, and yet he not touched by the disease. By faith the soul enjoys this security.