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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 6
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Fourthly, God withdraweth Himself from His People, yet so as his bowels yearn toward them. Jer. 31.20. Is Ephraim my dear son, &c. I thought of him and my bowels yearned saith God, or my bowels were troubled. He hath an eye toward them for much good in all his withdrawings.
Fourthly, God withdraweth Himself from His People, yet so as his bowels yern toward them. Jer. 31.20. Is Ephraim my dear son, &c. I thought of him and my bowels yerned saith God, or my bowels were troubled. He hath an eye toward them for much good in all his withdrawings.
Fifthly, When God is withdrawn from the Saints, nothing will satisfy them till God come again. When God withdraws Himself from others, they will seek after vanities to make up the want of Gods presence; As an Adultress in her husbands absence will seek other loves. But the Saints say, if God be gone I will enjoy nothing else, at least I will be satisfied in nothing else until I have Gods presence again.
Fifthly, When God is withdrawn from the Saints, nothing will satisfie them till God come again. When God withdraws Himself from others, they will seek after vanities to make up the want of Gods presence; As an Adultress in her husbands absence will seek other loves. But the Saints say, if God be gone I will enjoy nothing else, at least I will be satisfied in nothing else until I have Gods presence again.
Sixthly, Though God withdraw himself from the Saints, yet he doth not utterly forsake them, as David prays,