A77979:970
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 8
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.
And this is a rule, an everlasting rule, That the less a judgment is feared when it is threatened, the more dreadful apprehensions there are of it in the heart when once it cometh to be executed. That's the first Note.
And this is a rule, an everlasting rule, That the lesse a judgment is feared when it is threatned, the more dreadfull apprehensions there are of it in the heart when once it cometh to be executed. That's the first Note.
The second is this, The Ministers of God they must make the things they are Obser. 2 to preach to the people as real before their eyes as possibly they can.1
- 1Sermons must represent to the life what they press.Sermons must represent to the life what they presse.
They should study all ways and means they can to make what they preach to the people to be real to them, not to be as notions to them. So the Prophet here, he had preached ⟨p. 440⟩often times of the judgments of God, of the Sword, but this would not do it, therefore now he strives to make what he had delivered to appear in the most real way that possibly he could to the eyes and hearts of the people, & he saw that to be the only way to do them good. It is not therefore enough for a Minister barely to tell the people truths, to tell them what danger they are in, but by all means of expressions that may be to make this appear in the reality of it unto them. We know how Ezekiel was wont to do, he threatened their carrying away, and he went and made before them a kind of siege to make it real to them. So Jeremiah and other Prophets. Now though Ministers cannot do so as they did, yet they are to study all manner of expressions that possibly they can to present things in the greatest reality that may be. And indeed this is a great part of the skill of a good Minister, not barely to tell truths unto people, but to be able to make things appear real to them.