A77979:1413
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 3
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Obs. 5 Gods mercies to his people are prepared and decreed mercies. They are set and determined, thy going forth is prepared as the morning, the word I showed you in the Original signifies decreed, Jer. 33.20. Thus saith the Lord, If you can break my Covenant of the day, and my Covenant of the night, then also may my Covenant with David be broken. Here we have both the text and the note from it, the Covenant of Gods decree with day and night, morning and evening, called a Covenant because it is sure and certain, so also is the Covenant which God hath made to Christ and to his Church, firm and sure, and this is a ground of strong consolation to the Saints to consider, that mercies which they want are set and decreed mercies, therefore with patience wait for them.
Obs. 5 Gods mercies to his people are prepared and decreed mercies. They are set and determined, thy going forth is prepared as the morning, the word I shewed you in the Original signifies decreed, Jer. 33.20. Thus saith the Lord, If you can break my Covenant of the day, and my Covenant of the night, then also may my Covenant with David be broken. Here we have both the text and the note from it, the Covenant of Gods decree with day and night, morning and evening, cald a Covenant because it is sure and certain, so also is the Covenant which God hath made to Christ and to his Church, firm and sure, and this is a ground of strong consolation to the Saints to consider, that mercies which they want are set and decreed mercies, therefore with patience wait for them.
Obs. 6 The Saints in the night of their affliction can comfort themselves in this, That the morning is a coming. It is night yet, but the morning will come, 'tis approaching; the assurance the morning is coming upholds the Saints spirits in the night of their sorrows: the Mariner in tempestuous storms in the dark night, the traveller in his wearisome and dirty journey comforts themselves with this, the morning light is a coming; 'tis far better to be in darkness, and know the morning light is a coming, than to be in the light, and to know or fear that darkness is a coming, and light never to return more.