A77979:1425
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.
Use Now let not us begin in ways of obedience with God, and then leave off and lose all that we have done, let us consider that the vows of God are upon us, and many prayers we have put up, now let us not lose the return of them. How many in the days of their youth followed on to know God, and they found the sweetness of the Word to be as the former and the latter rain unto them? Do not now lose all which you got in your youth, by denying him service in your age, let not slothful age lose the sweetness of those things which in youth through christian diligence we found sweet.
Use Now let not us begin in waies of obedience with God, and then leave off and lose all that we have done, let us consider that the vows of God are upon us, and many prayers we have put up, now let us not lose the return of them. How many in the daies of their youth followed on to know God, and they found the sweetness of the Word to be as the former and the latter rain unto them? Do not now lose all which you got in your youth, by denying him service in your age, let not slothful age lose the sweetness of those things which in youth through christian diligence we found sweet.
Obs. 6 Gods mercies to his people procure much good; They are not empty shells, there is that good in them to the full, which they promise to have: these Notes are observable from the words thus understood; but now put all the sense of them together, and then they afford us two or three useful Observations more.
Obs. 6 Gods mercies to his people procure much good; They are not empty shels, there is that good in them to the ful, which they promise to have: these Notes are observable from the words thus understood; but now put al the sense of them together, and then they afford us two or three usefull Observations more.