A77979:1739
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.
Let not the corruptions of your hearts now break forth, now take heed of sins against conscience, lest he let you to perish in your lusts, be willing to let God alone to do his work in you, lie quiet and still, take heed of murmuring and repining speeches, but follow on the work ⟨p. 646⟩begun and beseech him not to leave you till the work be completed in you, and the great hazard of your miscarrying over, little do you imagine the wait and burden of those sins will be upon conscience which now you commit against conscience; what a torment will it be to thy conscience to think, that at such a time I felt Jesus Christ coming to heal my soul in the Ministry of his Word, Oh happy had it been for me, if I had lain under his hand, and to have kept his salve upon my sore! but because it was for the present troublesome, and smart, I cast it off and went into such company, and listened unto such temptations, and by this means have wounded my soul anew most desperately, and now what can I expect but that the Lord should for ever forsake me, and leave me to die in my sins, and wallow in my blood, and his eye not pity me, & make me to inherit the curse of that people, whose ears should be deaf that they should not hear, whose eyes should be blind that they should not see and be converted, and I should heal them.
Let not the corruptions of your hearts now break forth, now take heed of sins against conscience, lest he let you to perish in your lusts, be willing to let God alone to do his work in you, lie quiet and still, take heed of murmuring and repining speeches, but follow on the work ⟨p. 646⟩begun and beseech him not to leave you till the work be compleated in you, and the great hazard of your miscarrying over, little do you imagine the wait and burden of those sins will be upon conscience which now you commit against conscience; what a torment will it be to thy conscience to think, that at such a time I felt Jesus Christ coming to heal my soul in the Ministry of his Word, Oh happy had it been for me, if I had lain under his hand, and to have kept his salve upon my sore! but because it was for the present troublesom, and smart, I cast it off and went into such company, and listened unto such temptations, and by this means have wounded my soul anew most desperately, and now what can I expect but that the Lord should for ever forsake me, and leave me to die in my sins, and wallow in my blood, and his eye not pity me, & make me to inherit the curse of that people, whose ears should be deaf that they should not hear, whose eyes should be blind that they should not see and be converted, and I should heal them.