A77979:1927
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 15
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.
2 It is a great aggravation of a mans sin, to be sinful after great Obs. 2 mercies. God finds us as Chirurgeons do their patients, all out of joint, and crying out of their pains, Oh that I had ease! I would give my estate, that I might be cured; and when the Chirurgeon hath used his skill, and hath cured you of your pain, and hath given you some ease, if now you should stand haggling with him for a shilling matter, Would it not be an unworthy act? and would not the man think his time and skill ill bestowed? Oh how many people are there who deal thus with God? haggle and shuffle it with God in their distress: Oh if God will deliver them, what promises do they make? but when they have peace and quiet forget again.
2 It is a great aggravation of a mans sin, to be sinful after great Obs. 2 mercies. God finds us as Chyrurgions do their patients, all out of joynt, and crying out of their pains, Oh that I had ease! I would give my estate, that I might be cured; and when the Chyrurgion hath used his skill, and hath cured you of your pain, and hath given you some ease, if now you should stand hagling with him for a shilling matter, Would it not be an unworthy act? and would not the man think his time and skill ill bestowed? Oh how many people are there who deal thus with God? haggle and shuffle it with God in their distresse: Oh if God will diliver them, what promises do they make? but when they have peace and quiet forget again.
It were an argument of an excellent spirit indeed, if when after our Obs. 3 strength is restored and any mercy anew given into us, we would study how we might glorify God with the same. Have our arms been broken, & hath God bound them up for us? O let us now use them for God. But this people were far from this disposition, they imagined evil against God: As if a patient which is cured of ⟨p. 694⟩some desperate wound,1 or disease, should seek to stab his Chirurgeon or Physician.