A77979:1514
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 5
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.
Gods Ministers are Gods Tools; and as tools by working are Obs. 7 worn out, so are Gods Ministers worn by working; but when the work goes on though the tools are worn, the labourer thinks not much: so God when he sees people come in and accept of mercy, he is content to bear the loss of the wearing of his tools; and as men reckon not only for the work done, but also for the wearing of the tools, and the more precious the tool is, the more he accounts of, and reckons for the ⟨p. 596⟩wearing of it, so will God also, not only reckon for the lives of his servants but also for their strength and the weakening of their bodies by sweating and labour. Therefore people had need to look to it, that their fruit may answer the cost God is at with them; for know, that God sets a high price upon His choice servants lives, and he will have a valuable consideration for them, either in you or upon you; and woe be to you if God forceth the price of such blood as theirs is in your ruin.
Gods Ministers are Gods Tools; and as tools by working are Obs. 7 worn out, so are Gods Ministers worn by working; but when the work goes on though the tools are worn, the laborer thinks not much: so God when he sees people come in and accept of mercy, he is content to bear the loss of the wearing of his tools; and as men reckon not only for the work done, but also for the wearing of the tools, and the more precious the tool is, the more he accounts of, and reckons for the ⟨p. 596⟩wearing of it, so will God also, not only reckon for the lives of his servants but also for their strength and the weakening of their bodies by sweating and labor. Therefore people had need to look to it, that their fruit may answer the cost God is at with them; for know, that God sets a high price upon His choice servants lives, and he will have a valluable consideration for them, either in you or upon you; and wo be to you if God forceth the price of such blood as theirs is in your ruin.