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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 6
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.
They will go with their flocks and their herds, when th• are in extremity; O then God shall have any thing from them. Self-love drives men far and enlarges them much. Men in a storm are content to cast out much of that which is precious to them. Isa 29.16.1 They poured out prayer when thy chastening was upon them. They are straitened in prayer before, it cometh our by drops before, but when thy chastening is upon them, then they pour it out. And this is the baseness of our hearts that we can find enlargement for God only then when it is suitable to our own ends. Those whose hearts are more enlarged in adversity than in the enjoyment of mercies, had need to examine their hearts.
They will go with their flocks and their herds, when th• are in extremity; O then God shal have any thing from them. Self-love drives men far and enlarges them much. Men in a storm are content to cast out much of that which is precious to them. Isa 29.16.1 They powred out prayer when thy chastening was upon them. They are straitned in prayer before, it commeth our by drops before, but when thy chastening is upon them, then they powre it out. And this is the baseness of our hearts that we can find enlargment for God only then when it is sutable to our own ends. Those whose hearts are more enlarged in adversity than in the enjoyment of mercies, had need to examin their hearts.
- 1Self-love. sinful. Isa. 26.16 opened.
Further, Superstitious formal professors, think to make God amends for former and present evils of their hearts and lives, with outward performances.