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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.
First, It is a good sign that God hath not let thee alone when thou art troubled in the fear of thy heart lest God should have let thee alone. Commonly those men that God hath left alone they go on and are quiet and are never troubled about it, but please themselves in their own hearts lusts.
Secondly, It is a good means to keep thee from being let alone. Those that are afraid lest God should leave them alone, and upon that can say in the uprightness of their hearts, Oh I tremble under this judgment, I had rather God should give me up to all the Cavaliers, to all the Devils in Hell than to my own hearts lusts, it is a sign that this judgement is not upon thee, and it is a means to keep it from thee. And,
Secondly, It is a good means to keep thee from being let alone. Those that are afraid lest God should leave them alone, and upon that can say in the uprightness of their hearts, Oh I tremble under this judgment, I had rather God should give me up to all the Cavaliers, to all the Devils in Hell than to my own hearts lusts, it is a signe that this judgement is not upon thee, and it is a means to keep it from thee. And,
Thirdly and lastly, If thou hast yet a heart not to let God alone, God hath not a heart to let th•e alone. So long as thy heart keeps up to God that thou wilt not let him alone, (you know it is the Scripture phrase, when Moses was so earnestly seeking God in prayer, let me alone saith God to Moses) though thou findest not God coming to thee as thou desirest, thou attendest upon God in the word, and in reading, and meditation, and ⟨p. 215⟩