A77979:1659
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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › Verse 7
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Obs. 5 The breach of Covenant with God, is a most grievous aggravation of our sin; it provokes God highly against that people or person, there have they dealt treacherously against me, Deut. 29.24, 25. Why hath the Lord brought all this evil upon this people? Then men shall say, because they have forsaken the God of their fathers, and the Covenant in which they were bound to him in. What cause have we to bless God that he hath not destroyed us for breach of Covenant with him? why should not our condition be the condition of this people here in Deuteronomy? had God turned his hand and let our enemies prevail this might have been our case.
God expects something from his people which cannot be done by every Obs. 6 one; they must not plead they are flesh and blood as other men, God would have you more than men, you must remember that you are Saints and Members of Christ, and therefore must live as the redeemed of the Lord, in the first of the Corinthians, 3.3. Are you not carnal, and walk as Men? 1The Apostle rebukes the Corinthians for this, God looked that they should walk beyond other men, and that which the Apostle makes the ground of his reproof, they make their excuse; Jesus Christ descended from on high, to this end; to purchase a peculiar people to himself that might honour him in the world beyond that which he hath from other men; we should live as those which have the Divine Nature in them, we should beware of passion and anger, even as God is slow to anger: how far are those from doing any eminent thing for God, which cannot deny themselves in their wills and passions, and have not so much as humanity in them?
God expects something from his people which cannot be done by every Obs. 6 one; they must not plead they are flesh and blood as other men, God would have you more than men, you must remember that you are Saints and Members of Christ, and therefore must live as the redeemed of the Lord, in the first of the Corinthians, 3.3. Are you not carnal, and walk as Men?