A77979:1737
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 7 › Verse 1
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A fifth observation is this; That when a people grow worse upon the means of healing, it is a sign that their condition is desperate; Isa. 1.15. why should you be smitten any more? Ye will revolt yet more and more. Jer. 51.9. We would have healed Babylon, but she would not; forsake her. In thy filthiness is lewdness; because I have purged thee, and thou wouldest not be purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. Now certainly had not God found a party in this Kingdom which closed with him, when he would have healed us, we might have had occasion to make use of this Scripture, how just were it with God to leave such a people as we are in our healing, because we are so impatient under the rod, and oppose him even in our healing, Arius Montan•s quotes it out of Hippocrates, that the Physicians in his time,1 were bound by an Oath to leave such under their wounds to perish by them, that were incorrigible and would not endure the Chirurgeons to cure them. When a man is engaged in a bad cause, and means is used for the convincing of him, and yet oft times he will proceed and fly out the worse, Oh the vileness of mens spirits in this thing; we had need take heed what we engage our selves in, that the thing be good, the cause warrantable, how many men are there which break their consciences rather than yield to take shame to themselves for their sin. Oh what cause have we to fall down and be humbled for our iniquity, and to say as they in Jer. 14.18, 19, 20. So for particular Towns and places where God sends the Gospel, the means of grace, and that people is the worse for it, they have cause to tremble at it, do not cry out against the preaching of the Word as if that were the cause of it,2 this were most wicked and abominable; it was thus in Christs time: we never read of any possessed with Devils before Christ came; now sh•ll we say, it had been better that Christ had not come? Oh blame not the Ministry, but your own hearts: