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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 shall go with their flocks and their herds, but shall not find me. As thus. Men are never like to meet with God.
First, When they seek him in any superstitious way. These kind of formal superstitious worshippers of God, they did much, they spent much time in Gods worship, I appeal to their own consciences, and unto all men that knew their lives, did any thing of God appear in them? It may be manifested in their frothy, vain, and carnal conversations, that they never met with God in those worshippings. When God is sought and not in his own way, he will not be found.
First, When they seek him in any superstitious way. These kind of formal superstitious worshipers of God, they did much, they spent much time in Gods worship, I appeal to their own consciences, and unto all men that knew their lives, did any thing of God appear in them? It may be manifested in their frothy, vain, and carnal conversations, that they never met with God in those worshipings. When God is sought and not in his own way, he will not be found.
And then secondly, When we seek our selves rather than God, 1then he will not be found.
- 12. when our selves chiefly. 3. when not as God