A77979:1942
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 16
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.
This fight of God would inform us that it is not every sorrow and slight mourning for sin which will serve the turn, but it must be such a sorrow as is becoming such a God.
In this sight of God I behold that which hath power in it to raise my soul above all things here below, self, the world, and all creature comforts, all things must be looked upon as under our feet, else we cannot close with God.
I see by this sight, enough in God to make me blessed, and that I may bless my self in him, in the loss of all the world; and that there is enough in him to make me amends for all the troubles I have met withal for him. These are the thoughts of a true penitent heart concerning God. Now the soul can say, the Lord is God, and there is no such God as the Lord, and by this you may put your repentance to the trial,1 whether it be of the right kind or no, by your thoughts of God. Have you sorrowed for sin, as before such a glorious high God as the Lord is, that those that see •ur humiliations may see glory and honour and praise written upon them to the Lord? The want of this, these people were charged for here: and this hath been our case many times, the Lord help our reformers to carry on the work of reformation begun, as before the high God. If we lose this opportunity, we lose such an opportunity as yet was scarce ever granted to any Nation upon the face of the earth. Now wicked proud men may lift themselves high in the world, and be thought to be somebody for it, but it is the low, broken, penitent soul which it the high man, because he returns to the high God. But secondly, They return, but it is not to the yoke, as some render the words, They will not come under obedience to Gods commands, for there is but a little difference (namely in the pricks) between [Greek or Hebrew] jugum and [Greek or Hebrew] alitissi, and if we understand the word thus, then it notes, that they promised much, and made many fair shows of doing much, but they would not come under the yoke; they will still be sons of Belial, without yoke. So many people, upon exhortation and entreaties will promise fair, they will return, and they will do much, but when it