A77979:696
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 5 › Verse 2
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 is the work of the Ministers of God, to rebuke with authority, to rebuke cuttingly, when there is cause for it.
And indeed, the spirits of sinners are base and vile, and a Minister of God coming in the Name of God, i• above them, let them be what they will be;1 And if the rebuke be administered in a gracious way it will make the pr••dest si••er to shake under it; •et them seem to be never s• scornful ou•••rdly, yet I say let a Minister of God come in G•d• Name, and carry the rebuke in a gracious way, and s•••• as the Oracle of God, he may make the proudest and •••••est sinner to shake under his rebukes, for their spirits are vile. And those that are under the charge of such, though i• seems to be a hard work •nd grievous for the present unto tho•• th•• are rebuked, yet they will bless them afterward, if God bless the rebuke and others will curse them that would not ••buke them in their evil ways.
And indeed, the spirits of sinners are base and vile, and a Minister of God coming in the Name of God, i• above them, let them be what they will be;