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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
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.
Obs. 3 Gods mercies to his people, are both seasonable and suitable: this promised in the text, They should come as the latter, and former rain. The Lord comes to wicked men in a general way of providence; but to the Saints as rain in seed-time and harvest, with much fullness; how should this teach us our duty to wait with patience upon God with the husbandman (Jam. 5.7.) for the appointed weeks of harvest? so should we till mercies come seasonably; if mercies should always come when we would have them, they would prove judgments to us; that which in its self is a mercy, coming untimely proves an affliction, God sent his people Israel1 a King, but he proved a heavy judgment to them:2 if a woman should be delivered upon every pain and throwing she feels, what misshapen birth would she have? It is Gods mercy unto you to prolong your births till the full time: we cry out, Oh our troubles are great and continue long, we had thought to have seen a period to these times, our wars at an end and peace settled in our Kingdom; Oh know, that if they had ended sooner when we would have them, what a plague would it have been to us?3 how many that observe Gods dealings can say, that if such a mercy had come when they desired it, they had been undone by it, it had ruined them; therefore Gods time is the best time: hence we find that the Saints have often blessed ⟨p. 565⟩God when he hath crossed them in their desires, and hath denied them the thing which they so importunately desired: The Lord hath sent us the former rain, at the beginning of the summer in its season to prepare the earth for fruit; but now there are scorching heats in the Kingdom, heats of displeasure in the Country, in the City, nay almost in every family: Now let us with patience wait, and the latter rain in its season will assuredly come.
Obs. 3 Gods mercies to his people, are both seasonable and sutable: this promised in the text, They should come as the latter, and former rain. The Lord comes to wicked men in a general way of providence; but to the Saints as rain in seed-time and harvest, with much fulness; how should this teach us our duty to wait with patience upon God with the husbandman (