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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 4 › Verse 4
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.
Lastly, You are left to Gods striving and rebuking, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It is better when God striveth with you by men than that he should come and strive with you himself. As now, if a father send his servant to go and fetch in a child, to rebuke a child, and he comes and tells the father, he cares not what I say; No saith the father, I will go my self, and then it is worse with the child, the child then smart• for it; So God sends thy brother to rebuke thee, and to fetch thee in, thou carest not for him, thou lookest upon him as thy fellow-creature, and so thy brother goes to God, Lord he doth not regard what I say, No says God? I will rebuke him my self, and Gods rebukes in this case will be furious rebukes; Ezek 5.15. When I shall •x• ••te judgments in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes, Mark it. furious rebukes; The rebukes of a brother are loving rebukes, but if thou reject them Gods rebukes may com•nd they wilt prove furious rebukes, The rebukes of a brother are out of •••e but Am•s 7.4. The Lord calls to contend by •••e. When […] friends did strive with him they could not prevail, but ⟨p. 74⟩Job. 38.1. God calleth out of the whirlwind to answer to him, and who is this that darkeneth words without counsel? The Lord out of the whirlwind calleth to contend with Job and so overcometh him. If thou regardest not friends contending with thee, the Lord himself out of the whirlwind may come and contend with thee. Take heed how thou rejectest the strivings of a brother with thee, tor God may not only say he shall strive no longer, but my spirit shall no longer strive with thy soul.
Lastly, You are left to Gods striving and rebuking, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It is better when God striveth with you by men than that he should come and strive with you himself. As now, if a father send his servant to go and fetch in a child, to rebuke a chile, and he comes and tells the father, he cares not what I say; No saith the father, I will go my self, and then it is worse with the child, the child then smart for it; So God sends thy brother to rebuke thee, and to fetch thee in, thou carest not for him, thou lookest upon him as thy fellow-creature, and so thy brother goes to God, Lord he doth not regard what I say, No saies God? I will rebuke him my self, and Gods rebukes in this case will be furiou rebukes; Ezek 5.15. When I shall x te judgments in anger and in fury and in furus rebukes, Mark it. furious rebukes; The rebukes of a brother are loving rebkes, but if thou reject them Gods rebukes may comnd they wilt prove furious rebukes, The rebukes of a brother are out of e but Ams 7.4. The Lord calls to contend by e. When friends did strive with him they could not prvail, but