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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.
If we will not frame our doings to turn unto the Lord, he may break us, break that frame that we raise in our own imaginations: perhaps we are framing to our selves a strange kind of Common-wealth,1 to enjoy our ease and honours and prosperity, and so we build Castles in the air. Oh but let us rather frame our hearts to turn unto the Lord. If we will not frame God may put us into the fire again. A workman you know puts the Iron into the fire because it might be framed to such a work as he would have it,2 but still the iron is hard and it will not frame to his hand, then he puts it into the fire again and then falleth a knocking again: So the Lord hath begun to put us into the fire that we may frame our doings to turn unto him, and if the fire we have been in will not bring our hearts to a framable disposition, the Lord may put us into the fire again and again. And let not us complain of the heat of Gods fire, but rather let us complain of the unframableness of our own hearts, that we do not frame our doings so as to turn unto the Lord.
If we will not frame our doings to turn unto the Lord, he may break us, break that frame that we raise in our own imaginations: perhaps we are framing to our selves a strange kind of Common-wealth,1 to enjoy our ease and honors and prosperity, and so we build Castles in the air. Oh but let us rather frame our hearts to turn unto the Lord. If we will not frame God may put us into the fire again. A workman you know puts the Iron into the fire because it might be framed to such a work as he would have it,2 but still the iron is hard and it will not frame to his hand, then he puts it into the fire again and then falleth a knocking again: So the Lord hath begun to put us into the fire that we may frame our doings to turn unto him, and if the fire we have been in will not bring our hearts to a framable disposition, the Lord may put us into the fire again and again. And let not us complain of the heat of Gods fire, but rather let us complain of the unframableness of our own hearts, that we do not frame our doings so as to turn unto the Lord.