A77979:1751
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 2
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Wicked men will not consider that God doth remember their sins. Obs. 2 In Psal. 94.7. they commit horrible wickednesses, daring ⟨p. 650⟩sins, yet they force themselves not to believe that God doth remember them, and take notice of them, yet they say, The Lord shall not see it, neither shall the God of Jacob remember it. The Jews tell us, that when Jeroboam's hand was dried up, the false Prophets told him that this was but by chance, and so kept him from thinking of God that had smitten him. Did men consider that it is God that remembers them, it would work humiliation in them, and stop them in their sins; were the danger that sin brings men into, always in their eye, they would think it a great madness to sin against God, and folly too; Use Joshua thought it so, Is the iniquity of Peor a small thing in your eyes, that you should ad more to them? Didst thou know that God remembers the sins of thy youth and thy elder age, thou wouldst fear, that upon the next sin thou committest God might bring upon thee all the rest of the sins which thou hast committed; as a man that hath used his body to drink poison,1 at the first and second time he may do well, but at last he is overcome, and destroys himself: so the next sin which thou committest,2 though it be a less sin than formerly thou hast committed, this sin may set all the rest on working: as suppose there be many barrels of Gunpowder in a room, and there lies but a thimbleful by it,3 and a spark falls into that and so fires all the rest; so thy former sins are as the barrels of Gunpowder, the next sin thou committest, especially if a sin against knowledge, may be the thimbleful which sets all the rest on work to pull down judgment upon thee. There is no argument so powerful to keep men from their sins as the consideration that God sees them, and knows them all, and will remember them.
Wicked men will not consider that God doth remember their sins. Obs. 2 In Psal. 94.7