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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 7
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.
Oh consider this you that have not yet done away your sins in the blood of Christ, and made up your peace with God:1 The guilt of your sin is yet upon you, and the filthiness of it yet doth stick: you will come to God in prayer, and seek Him, and cry unto Him for mercy: Know that all the wickedness that ever you committed in all your lives, is fresh in the presence of God; God looks upon all as if it were now present. Here cometh saith God, a filthy old whoremaster,2 an unclean wretch, he cometh now to pray unto me: and here comes an old drunkard, a wicked scorner and blasphemer. When thou comest to seek God, then all thy wickedness is remembered before him; and upon this, God justly doth cast thy services back again in thy face. Thus it is here. Oh learn therefore to cleanse thy heart in the blood of Christ by faith in Him and by repentance, and then though thou hast been vile heretofore, when thou comest to seek the face of God, thy sins shall not be remembered before Him. That for the connection.
Oh consider this you that have not yet done away your sins in the blood of Christ, and made up your peace with God:1 The guilt of your sin is yet upon you, and the filthiness of it yet doth stick: you will come to God in prayer, and seek Him, and cry unto Him for mercy: Know that all the wickedness that ever you committed in all your lives, is fresh in the presence of God; God looks upon all as if it were now present. Here cometh saith God, a filthy old whoremaster,2 an unclean wretch, he cometh now to pray unto me: and here comes an old drunkard, a wicked scorner and blasphemer. When thou comest to seek God, then all thy wickedness is remembred before him; and upon this, God justly doth cast thy services back again in thy face. Thus it is here. Oh learn therefore to cleanse thy heart in the blood of Christ by faith in Him and by repentance, and then though thou hast been vile heretofore, when thou comest to seek the face of God, thy sins shall not be remembred before Him. That for the connection.
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