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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 4 › Verse 17
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.
Reas. 5 Fifthly, If God once inflict this judgment upon sinners to say, Let them alone, if God will not vouchsafe to speak unto them any more, he will not then vouchsafe to hear them speak unto him any more. If God once shall take away his Word ⟨p. 209⟩from them. If once the Lord shall say, they would not hear me, they shall never hear me more, Let them alone, God will then likewise say, I will not hear them, let them cry in the anguish of their spirits I will let them alone; that is certain; When God shall let sinners alone in regard of his mercy then he will let them alone too when the greatest wrath shall be upon them, As thus, when they shall come under the greatest affliction, the most dreadful miseries and torments in this world and eternally in the world to come, when they shall then be crying, and roaring, and yelling out in the anguish of their spirits unto God, Oh that God would now have mercy upon us! God will let them even then alone, I will bring them into the fire saith God, and then I will leave them there; Oh think of this when you feel that there was a time when God was stirring and striving with your hearts, but now it is not so as before, yet you are worse in your lives than before.
Reas. 5 Fiftly, If God once inflict this judgment upon sinners to say, Let them alone, if God will not vouchsafe to speak unto them any more, he will not then vouchsafe to hear them speak unto him any more. If God once shall take away his Word ⟨p. 209⟩from them. If once the Lord shall say, they would not hear me, they shall never hear me more, Let them alone, God will then likewise say, I will not hear them, let them cry in the anguish of their spirits I will let them alone; that is certain; When God shall let sinners alone in regard of his mercy then he will let them alone too when the greatest wrath shall be upon them, As thus, when they shall come under the greatest affliction, the most dreadful miseries and torments in this world and eternally in the world to come, when they shall then be crying, and roaring, and yelling out in the anguish of their spirits unto God, Oh that God would now have mercy upon us! God will let them even then alone, I will bring them into the fire saith God, and then I will leave them there; Oh think of this when you feel that there was a time when God was stirring and striving with your hearts, but now it is not so as before, yet you are worse in your lives than before.