A77979:1465
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 4
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.
but let me tell you, should these ⟨p. 581⟩beginnings of reformation end as, and prove to be as the morning cloud and early dew, we should be the most miserable people in the world, losing the greatest opportunity to do our selves good that ever any people had, & procure the greatest curse to our selves, and posterity that ever was upon a people, the generations that are yet unborn may (if we lose this opportunity) curse the time that we lived before them, therefore be encouraged to venture in this work, and do you still own the cause, for God will own it, and never leave it, that so the work may be finished, and we may say with the Saints, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he hath heard us; 1we should consider that it is a mercy the Lord hath made use of such false spirited men in his work to do his people good by, and seeing the Lord is gone so far in the work, let us entreat him that he would follow it on, and not only bedew us, but even wet us to the root. It is Gods promise very remarkable in the 14. chap. of this Prophecy and the 5. verse, I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the lily: they shall have the dew, and be like the lily: but the lily is a poor, weak, fading thing; but saith God, I will moisten the roots of it like Lebanon, my mercy shall be perfected towards them: the Lord grant this promise may be made good to us. And thus much of their reformation in the general, as it concerned the public State and Church
but let me tell you, should these ⟨p. 581⟩beginnings of reformation end as, and prove to be as the morning cloud and early dew, we should be the most miserable people in the world, losing the greatest opportunity to do our selves good that ever any people had, & procure the greatest curse to our selves, and posterity that ever was upon a people, the generations that are yet unborn may (if we lose this opportunity) curse the time that we lived before them, therefore be encouraged to venture in this work, and do you still own the cause, for God will own it, and never leave it, that so the work may be finished, and we may say with the Saints, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he hath heard us;