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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 5
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 will cast down the proud,1 and certainly when those that are proud fall they must needs fall very low because a proud man lifteth up himself so high, and you know according to the height a thing falls from so i• the fall of it: now a proud man lifts up himself on high,2 so high indeed as he lifts himself up above God, therefore he must needs fall down very low: And upon that I remember Bernard hath this Note,3 Here is the reason (saith he) why a proud man can have no grace, from God; why? God is the fountain of grace, and it is a rule in nature that the stream that cometh from a fountain, it ascendeth no higher than the top of the fountain is. (You may find it in all Aqueducts, according to the height of the fountain so high may the stream be carried, but it will go no higher.) Now saith he, God being the fountain of all grace, surely grace cannot rise higher than God himself; but a proud man lifteth himself above God, therefore he is above grace, grace cannot reach him.
God will cast down the proud,1 and certainly when those that are proud fall they must needs fall very low because a proud man lifteth up himself so high, and you know according to the height a thing falls from so i• the fall of it: now a proud man lifts up himself on high,2 so high indeed as he lifts himself up above God, therefore he must needs fall down very low: And upon that I remember Bernard hath this Note,3 Here is the reason (saith he) why a proud man can have no grace, from God; why? God is the fountain of grace, and it is a rule in nature that the stream that cometh from a fountain, it ascendeth no higher than the top of the fountain is. (You may find it in all Aquaeducts, according to the height of the fountain so high may the stream be carried, but it will go no higher.) Now saith he, God being the fountain of all grace, surely grace cannot rise higher than God himself; but a proud man lifteth himself above God, therefore he is above grace, grace cannot reach him.