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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30574	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070B; ESTC R36308	388,238	512

Church is humbling its self before God for the great wickedness and the great wrath that was upon them Behold Oh Lord for I am in distress my bowels are troubled mine heart is turned within me for I have grevously rebelled Mark here you have these two points together The Church aggravates her sin I have grievously rebelled and what then Oh Lord I am in distress my bowels are troubled my heart is turned within me Oh! remember this text you whose consciences do tell you of grievous Rebellions The last words follow In a morning shall the King of Israel be utterly cut off Now for the understanding of this we must consider to what this refers what King of Israel this was and when this was fulfilled For that if you reade 2 King 17. it hath reference to the story there and this King of Israel that is here spoken of is Hoshea that was the last King of Israel and therefore it 's said That he shall be utterly cut off For he and all his family was utterly cut off there was an end of the Kingdom of Israel that had continued so long provoking God saith he I have forborn the Kings of Israel a long time but now they shall be utterly cut off in H●shea This King of Israel his spirit was stout enough against God and his Prophets and he would and he would My Brethren It is not the stoutness of the greatest men upon earth to say They will and they will and they will venture their Lives and Kingdoms Why if they Will God Will too he hath a Will as well as they at length Gods Will grows as strong as theirs and proceeds against them and against their very families The King of Israel shall be utterly cut off Kings of the Earth they suffer little from men What a brave business i● it for a man that he shall be able to go up and down in Countries and rend and tear and oppress and bring thousands into woful miseries and extremities and yet be afraid to suffer nothing at all Himself therfore it is fit for God to take in hand those men that are above the power of men when men cannot deal with them it is the Lord himself he takes them into hand and they are so much the more under the imediate Justice of the Infinite God Shall be utterly cut off But when shall this be In a morning There is a sad morning coming But I find Cyril carries it thus God in his Patience is compared to a man asleep and in the execution of Judgment is said to awake God brings his Righteous Judgements to light every morning But that 's a little too forced But Secondly In a morning that is Early betimes so in Jer. 21. 12. O house of David thus saith the Lord Execute Judgment in the Morning So the King of Israel shall be early cut off And indeed this King of Israel he was early cut off he did not reign above eight or nine yeers at most God doth take some in the morning of their time in their youth when their day is but as it were dawning he takes some sinners sooner than others In the morning he shall be cut off But Thirdly In the morning which comes yet neerer and more full to the sense and the scope of the Spirit of God here that is even when the light comes when they have hopes of further good then he shall be cut off And so you shal find if you reade the story in the book of Kings at this time when Hoshea was to be cut off that it was when he had entred into League with the King of EGYPT and now Hoshea thought a morning would arise and he should have a brave day and live many merry daies now and when he thought the light began to come in a morning doth God come to cut him off Oh! so it is many times my Brethren That at that time when people have some enlightening and they think that now light is breaking out when after a long night of darkness then Gods displeasure breaks forth upon them We cannot but acknowledge that the Lord hath granted us a morning light but let us fear and tremble for the time of Gods displeasure somtime it is in the morning when we think we have light breaking forth God may have other waies to bring darkness upon us than we are aware of we know how dreadful a day it was with Sodom after a Sun-shine morning It 's very observable the difference of Gods dealing with his own People and with those that are carnal and of the world compare this Scripture with Zach. 14. 7. Here In a morning shall he be utterly cut off But in Zach. 14. 7. where God is speaking of mercy to his People he speaks of a day that should be known to God and saith he At evening time it shall be light He comforts his People thus But when he threatens the wicked saith he When the morning comes it shall be darkness The Lord doth use to turn the darkness of the Saints into light and to turn the light of the wicked and ungodly into darkness Oh! let us learn to fear that God then that is able to turn light into darkness and darkness into light Amos 5. 8. Seek him saith the text that turneth the shadow of death into the morning and maketh the day dark with night He can turn the shadow of death into morning Suppose there be the greatest darkness upon you God can make that a morning of light and suppose there be a morning of light God can turn that into darkness Many men they set upon some waies and because they have a morning they bless themselves and think all must needs go on according to their way it is a very ordinary thing in the hearts of men especially that are compassing some notable design of their own if it doth prosper in the begining they think al wil go on Oh! thou maiest be utterly deceived thy designs may have a morning and then God may cut thee off and thy designs and all thy thoughts may then perish We reade that Saul had many Victories after that God had pronounced that he should be rejected And therefore we had need fear that God that can turn the morning into darkness and darkness into light Fourthly God did not discomfit the Host of the Egyptians until the morning God loves to draw forth great sinners to the light not to come upon them in the dark but to bring forth his judgments in the morning openly and cleerly And lastly In the morning he shall be cut off That is Suddenly God will be quick at his work They thought by their power to hold it out No saith God I will not make a daies work of it it shal be in the morning so the old Latin turns it It shall pass as the morning as the light of the morning quickly passes