A77979:1914
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 14
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.
And here we see what little use there is of wicked mens spirits, they are of no use, there is for them in the places where they live nothing that they can do,1 thou canst easily sin and bring down judgments by thy sins, but when they are come upon thee what wilt thou do? perhaps thou wilt pray and cry to God, God he abhors thy prayers, thy cries are abomination unto him; it is the Saints prayers that are so acceptable unto him, the prayer of the upright is his delight, Prov. 15.8. the least sigh, which come• from a godly heart is such a strong cry that it fills heaven and earth; so that (as I may speak with reverence) God can hear nothing else but that, because he both prepares their hearts to pray, and prepares his ear to hear; therefore we find in Scripture such expressions as these: Psal. 10.17. and Nehem. 1.7. the good man prays that Gods ear would be attentive, and his eyes open that he might hear the prayers of his servant. Psal. 86.1. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear, and help me for I am poor. 1 Pet. 3.12. His ears are open to their prayers. And Psal. 86.6. God gives his ear to their prayers and attends to the voice of their supplication; what doth all this hold forth unto us but this? that the prayers of Saints are very delightful to him, they are pleasant music in his ears, were there no other difference between the godly and the wicked than in their prayers, it were sufficient to make men out of love with the ways of sin, and join with the Saints in the ways of holiness, the Saints they send up sweet breathings, and God takes pleasure in them: ⟨p. 691⟩the wicked they howl and cry out, and God rejects them.