A77979:1399
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 3
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.
Object. But many a poor soul may here object: That if this be thus, I fear it is my condition, that the means aggravates the sins that I commit, and leaves me inexcusable.
Object. But many a poor soul may here object: That if this be thus, I fear it is my condition, that the means aggravares the sins that I commit, and leaves me inexcusable.
Answ. To answer thee, If thou art not one who follows divers lusts, and makes them thy practice, thou art not the man who art ever learning &c. if thou followest on to know God, God will follow thee on with mercy.
Obs. 10 One mercy makes way for another: a lesser prepares for a greater: God beholds all things at once with one view of his providential eye, and 'tis his happiness so to do. But the Saints cannot do this, they must know a little now, & more at another time: And doth not our times make good this text? The Lord will grant one deliverance now, and another reviving the next day, and all to usher in a greater: The Lord first smote us, and within two days he did revive us, and the third day we lived in his sight, and since that deliverance we have followed on to know the Lord, and God hath revealed himself more in his power, wisdom, and faithfulness; the vanity of an arm of flesh, and the outward glory of the creature, and ⟨p. 559⟩if it be not our fault we may know more of his workings, if we would follow on to know the Lord. O that we had hearts to follow on the Lord in repenting, believing, and turning to Him, He would follow us on with mercies, and all the good that we can wish for one after another: God makes wicked men to know more wrath; and the drops of his anger here, are but the beginning of the deluge of miseries which are their portion, they sink, and sink, and their sinking must be to all eternity: Oh the difference which there is between Gods dealing with the Saints, and with the wicked! Though the Saints may be under a cloud for the present, yet they shall know the Lord, the Sun will appear again, the Lord will follow on his work, though we neglect ours, and glorious shall the issue of things be in the conclusion; were it not a glorious thing if a man had lived from the beginning to this day and might live to the end of the world, to see what God did in former times, what God doth now, and what he will do to the end of the world for his poor Churches? The Saints shall live to all eternity to see these glorious things; God did glorious things in the first six thousand years, and surely the next six thousand years shall be most glorious, but in eternity God will do most of all,