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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 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.
For first, What is reprobation?1 Reprobation certainly is not for God to decree to damn men, you mistake in that, that is not the first act of God upon any man; but thus, reprobation is this, for God to decree whereas there are some that he hath set his heart upon, he is resolved to do them good, there are others, he doth not presently decree to damn them, but he doth decree to leave them unto themselves, that what they Earn they shall have and no more,2 he will deal with them according to their works, he will do them no wrong, he will not be unjust to them,3 he will not damn them but for their sin. he never decrees to damn any but for sin; but he decrees this, he will leave them to a course of justice, I will give them what is sit for them to have in creation, I will make such a covenant with them, and then I will leave them unto themselves, and what they work for they shall have; this is then another kind of reprobation, and worse than that first;4 that is reprobation for God to decree to leave a man to himself ⟨p. 210⟩when he had no sin in him, as God did not make man with sin at first; suppose you were now made according to the Image of God without sin, yet if God should decree to leave you fully and eternally to your self, you were but a reprobate, but now when God sees a man in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity, now for God to leave him to himself, this is reprobation of the second Edition, this is a most dreadful reprobation indeed,
- 1Reprobation what
- 2Earnings.
- 3Justice.
- 4Reprobation.