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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.
Reas. 5 And then conscience flies in thy face and terrifies thee, Oh the blessed God is gone, and mercy is gone, and Christ is gone, and that for such and such sins of mine, and such and such lusts of mine that lay so near my heart. Oh how terrible will it be to conscience when God shall appear to withdraw himself!
Reas. 5 And then conscience flies in thy face and terrifies thee, Oh the blessed God is gone, and mercy is gone, and Christ is gone, and that for such and such sins of mine, and such and such lusts of mine that lay so neer my heart. Oh how terrible will it be to conscience when God shall appear to withdraw himself!
Reas. 6 And this withdrawing of God is but a forerunner of Gods eternal withdrawing himself from the soul, and from the body too.
The Saints had rather have Gods presence though angry, than God withdrawing himself from them. When God withdrawing himself but a little, Oh they could never be at quiet, till God returned again, O cast me not from thy presence saith David.