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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 5 › 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.
God is about to bring us from a way of superstition, both the Works and the Word of God tend that way; but there are multitudes of people that will not frame their doings to turn unto the Lord, their spirits are perverse, they are full of prejudice, froward, and they hang off, and then we know they cannot be convinced. The Apostle Peter bids the Saints in Act. 2.40. save themselves from that untoward generation. Oh let not this charge be upon us, that we are an untoward generation, that God i• framing of us for good, but we will not frame our doings to turn unto the Lord: As we see a workman when he hath a piece of timber that is knotty and ⟨p. 381⟩will not work in his hand, he casts it into the fire; or as clay simile 1 that is not well tempered it will not work in the hand of the workman, he many times casteth it away in an anger, it will simile 2 not work in my hand, what shall I do with it? The Lord is hewing of us by his Prophets, and seeking to frame this Nation to his will, Oh let us work in Gods hand, let us join with the work of God, and yield our selves to the work of God, that the Lord may not cast us into the fire.
God is about to bring us from a way of superstition, both the Works and the Word of God tend that way; but there are multitudes of people that will not frame their doings to turn unto the Lord, their spirits are perverse, they are full of prejudice, froward, and they hang off, and then we know they cannot be convinced. The Apostle Peter bids the Saints in Act. 2.40. save themselves from that untoward generation. Oh let not this charge be upon us, that we are an untoward generation, that God i• framing of us for good, but we will not frame our doings to turn unto the Lord: As we see a workman when he hath a piece of timber that is knotty and ⟨p. 381⟩will not work in his hand, he casts it into the fire; or as clay simile 1 that is not well tempered it will not work in the hand of the workman, he many times casteth it away in an anger, it will simile 2 not work in my hand, what shall I do with it? The Lord is hewing of us by his Prophets, and seeking to frame this Nation to his will, Oh let us work in Gods hand, let us joyn with the work of God, and yeild our selves to the work of God, that the Lord may not cast us into the fire.