A77979:1724
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.
There is much wickedness lies hid many times in a Kingdom or Obs. 4 person till the means appear to cure them. It was thus with Paul, Rom. 7.9. he was sinful before, but when the Law came sin revived and I died, yet notwithstanding God by his almighty power helped him over them all: As when a man comes to repair an old house which is rotten and decayed,1 he doth not conceive the trouble of it till he comes to remove the rubbish: Who would imagine the wickedness that is in many mens hearts which discovers it self when the means comes? had not God set many servants in good families the vileness and the vanity of their spirits had not discovered it self:2 certainly this is our condition, some few years since, there appeared much wickedness in England, but how much more since God hath sent the means to cure it? As appears,
There is much wickedness lies hid many times in a Kingdom or Obs. 4 person till the means appear to cure them. It was thus with Paul, Rom. 7.9. he was sinful before, but when the Law came sin revived and I died, yet notwithstanding God by his almighty power helped him over them all: As when a man comes to repair an old house which is rotten and decayed,1 he doth not conceive the trouble of it till he comes to remove the rubbish: Who would imagine the wickedness that is in many mens hearts which discovers it self when the means comes? had not God set many servants in good families the vileness and the vanity of their spirits had not discovered it self:2 certainly this is our condition, some few yeers since, there appeared much wickedness in England, but how much more since God hath sent the means to cure it? As appears,
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