A77979:1738
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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and consider of this you that God is working upon, the Lord comes close by the Ministry of his Word to heal you, and then you discover your ⟨p. 645⟩wickedness, and rotten hearts, the Lord he stirs such a conscience and begins to heal the soul, now 'tis the Devils policy to spoil such beginnings, now thinks the Devil, if I can make such a soul to commit a sin against conscience, or live in the omission of any known duty, the word then will never work more to do such a man good. I have heard of a man who being troubled in conscience for committing that great sin of uncleanness, the Devil tempting him to commit it again, and told him if he would he should never be troubled more for it, the poor man yielding to do it, and venturing upon it again, after he had done it he was never tempted again nor troubled more, but presently lay in a wanzeing, languishing senseless condition and so died. Oh take heed of this you that are convinced in your consciences of the evil of such and such courses, for it is the great policy of the Devil to make thee who art convinced in conscience, to sin against conscience, and then he thinks the work is lost, the Devil doth not much fear the Words working upon him, whom he hath prevailed over to live in secret known sins and to venture upon the commission of sins against conscience; you who are under Gods hand of cure, be silent, and submit quietly under Gods hand and be not froward, as many are in their troubles of conscience, but hearken for a word from God;1 as the men of Benhadad did from that King, in 1 King. 20.33. hearkened diligently whether any words of comfort fell from him, and they catched at them hastily. Know that it were just with God to make you as that people, Isa. 6.10. that your hearts should be made fat. This concerns all people, but especially those that are in trouble of conscience, those that God begins to stir and work upon, take heed I say; doth Christ himself begin to work upon you? doth he desire to heal you? is he willing to offer his blood to cure you by applying it to your wounded consciences?
and consider of this you that God is working upon, the Lord comes close by the Ministry of his Word to heal you, and then you discover your