A77979:1721
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 7 › Verse 1
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.
I would have healed Ephraim: That is, I would, and I did use all the means that was possible to heal them, and which might have done it.
But it may be objected, Object. If God see that we are unable of our selves to be healed, how can we be healed, when we have no power to be healed?
Now for answer to this, we must know, Answ. That men are not so much healed, it proceeds not so much from the want of ability, as their will; men do not do what they can, therefore they do not will to be healed; God doth not make men unwilling, but speaks to us after the manner of men; (though there be also an inability, yet because men think not of that in not turning, or because the inability is chiefly in the perverseness of the will, 'tis not a metaphysical inability as I may so speak, but a formal wilfulness) though men think that God is in all the fault, that they are not healed, but God will make this one of his works at the day of judgment, to clear Himself from those aspersions; now men are so proud, that they think themselves too good and too lofty for God, but God will clear, and show Himself to be righteous in their destruction.
Now for answer to this, we must know, Answ. That men are not so much healed, it proceeds not so much from the want of ability, as their will; men do not do what they can, therefore they do not will to be healed; God doth not make men unwilling, but speaks to us after the manner of men; (though there be also an inability, yet because men think not of that in not turning, or because the inability is chiefly in the perversness of the will, 'tis not a metaphysical inability as I may so speak, but a formal wilfulness) though men think that God is in all the fault, that they are not healed, but God wil make this one of his works at the day of judgment, to cleer Himself from those aspersions; now men are so proud, that they think themselves too good and too lofty for God, but God will cleer, and shew Himself to be righteous in their destruction.