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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 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.
That for any man to make good beginnings and overtures in the ways of God, and let all fall again, and come to nothing, is a thing very grievous to God, and dangerous to himself. Psal. 78.36, 37. Nevertheless, they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues, for their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his Covenant: what then? ver. 58, 59. For they provoked him to anger with their Idols; God greatly abhorred Israel, they were as a deceitful bow, hypocritical in all their ways, which the Spirit of God cannot endure, for these reasons.
That for any man to make good beginnings and overtures in the waies of God, and let all fall again, and come to nothing, is a thing very grievous to God, and dangerous to himself. Psal. 78.36, 37. Nevertheless, they did flater him with their mouth, and they lyed unto him with their tongues, for their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his Covenant: what then? ver. 58, 59. For they provoked him to anger with their Idols; God greatly abhorred Israel, they were as a deceitful bow, hypocritical in all their waies, which the Spirit of God cannot endure, for these reasons.
1The Spirit of God is a holy Spirit; but this is a slight fickle, a very vain spirit, no soundness in it.
- 1Reas. of the first part.