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A12523	An exposition vpon the sixt chapter of the prophesie of Hosea VVherein is set down the true repentance of the godly, as also the hypocriticall repentance of the wicked; most needfull for these times. Wherein 1. The summe and scope. 2. The doctrines. 3. The reasons. 4. The vses. Of most texts are obserued. First preached by Samuel Smyth minister of Roxwel in Essex, and now by him published, intending the further good of his charge, and the profit of as many as shall please to read it. Seene and allovved.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1616 (1616)	STC 22847.3; ESTC S102418	218,718	364

I would bee their God Their sinne and they promised they would be my people Well I gaue them my lawes and commandements and my ordinances which were as a payre of Indentures betweene mee and them I set to my Seales and bound my selfe vnto them to stand by them to keepe and defend them from their enemies And for my part if they had kept Couenant I would for euer haue beene their God and they should haue beene my people but they haue quickly start out of the way they haue forgot their couenant made with mee broken my lawes and cast aside my commandements and haue abused my ordinances The Couenant what Gen. 17 7.8 Gen. 18.9 10 Exo. 19.5.6 Rom. 4.17 What this Couenant was these places shew Moreouer I will stablish my Couenant betweene mee and thee and thy seede after thee in thy generations for an euerlasting Couenant to bee God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger Euen all the land of Canaan for an euerlasting possession And I will be their God Doct. 1 Thus had God bound himselfe by Couenant vnto them to bee their God The breaking of our couenant with god the cause of al iudgemēts And in that they had most vnthankefully violated the same the Lord layes here this great ingratitude of theirs to their charge So then the first point of Doctrine which this Text doth afford vs is this We may here behold what is the cause that God forsaketh any people and withdraweth his mercifull protection from them and layes them open to all miseries calamities iudgements and distresses namely the breaking of our Couenant with God for this doth highly offend God and prouoke him to anger to see his Couenants so lightly regarded and so wilfully transgressed as it doth appeare in this people whose sinne was no small sinne but a great and grieuous sin for in keeping of their Couenant with God did consist their euerlasting weale and kappinesse for then the Lord had bound himselfe that if they would keepe his commandements and lawes that hee would bee their God to defend them from all their enemies yea to confound all their aduersaries and so long as they were mindfull of their vow and couenant and walked in his wayes none could doe them harme yea they could want no blessing or mercie of God as it doth appeare by Gods own words Deut. 5.29 Deut. 28. Oh that there were such an heart in this people that they would feare mee and keepe my commandements alwayes that it might goe well with them and with their children after them for euer so on the contrary the breaking of this couenant was as much as their liues were worth for then the Lord was not bound to bee their God nor to keepe them any longer but they were naked of Gods protection and lay open to all miseries and calamities were a prey to their enemies and then all those curses pronounced against Couenant breakers Deut. 28.15 must needs fall vpon them If thou wilt not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God to keepe and to doe all his commandements and his ordinances which I command thee this day then shall these curses come vpon thee and ouertake thee Cursed shalt thou bee in the towne and cursed in the field cursed shall bee thy basket and store the fruit of thy body c. Exod. 32.25 When the people of God had committed idolatry and made them gods to goe before them it is sayde by Moses The people were naked for Aaron had made them naked to their shame amongst their enemies It was their sinne of Idolatrie that depriued them of Gods protection for as keeping his Couenant men are guarded from all dangers so breaking the same he naked to all iudgements and calamities When Achan had stolne the Babylonish garment and the wedge of gold the whole Host of Israel was punished for the same fault till the sinner was found out for because of the sin of Achan Iosu 7.24 the whole host of Israel were before their enemies but as naked men vtterlie destitute of Gods lpeciall protection Wee see this in Salowon 1. Reg. 11.14.23 when his heart was turned away from the true God and his hands were holden vp to strange gods the Lord was wroth against Salomon Then the Lord stirred vp one aduersary vnto Salomon and afterwards another which did much mischiefe and euill against Israel And this is likewise cleare by the example of Rhehoboam the sonne of Salomon who when hee had once forsaken the Lord and all Israel with him the Prophet comes with this message from the Lord 2. Cron. 12.5 Thus sayth the Lord Yee haue forsaken mee therefore haue I left you in the hands of Shishak These examples and the like whereof the Scriptures are full all serue to confirme the Doctrine now deliuered that sinne is the cause of all miserie and the breaking of our Couenant with God the cause of all calamity And good reason it should bee so for it is a iust thing for God to depart from them that depart from him to forsake them that forsake him whose departure from vs is the cause of all those iudgements wee suffer here Reason and shall make vs one day to taste of the bitternesse of his iudgements which last to confusion for euer Now let vs come to the Vses Vse 1 This teacheth vs first of all to acknowledge that all iudgements which are layde vpon vs here are most iust and righteous with our God whose iudgements are alwayes iust that howsoeuer the particular cause is not alwaies discerned vnto vs why the Lord doth strike vs and chastice vs yet certain it is that if the stormes of Gods iudgements doe arise some Ionas or other is in the shippe some secret sinne or other lyes lurking in our soules that hath caused the Lord to be so angry with vs according to that of the Prophet Ieremy Wherefore is the liuing man sorrowfull Man suffereth for his sinne Oh let vs search and trie our wayes and turne vnto the Lord where wee may see the cause of all iudgements our sinnes Secondly the remedy To search and trie our wayes and turne vnto the Lord. Oh then let vs euer acknowledge the Lord to bee iust in all his wayes and righteous in all his workes yea let vs in the middest of Gods iudgements conclude Lam. 3.39 and say It is the Lords mercy that wee are not consumed because his compassions faile not The Lord might iustly take all aduantage at our hands but his mercy is ouer all his works in the middest of his iudgements he remembreth mercy Well let vs apply this Doctrine to our selues Vse 2 see whether wee can excuse our selues that we are not Couenant breakers against our God There is none of vs all but wee haue entred a solemne league made a solemne

the fore-runner of some fearefull iudgement vnto the soule of that man I haue cut them downe by my Prophets I haue slaine them by the words of my mouth IN that the Lord doth threaten this iudgement of al Doct. 4 other as the greatest that hee could bring vpon them namely to Cut them downe and to slay them The Word of God is able to pearce the hardest heart and that not by an ordinary meanes or slaughter but by his Prophets and Word that is that he would make good his Word in their mouthes and bring to passe all those terrible and fearefull iudgements that they had denounced against them from the Lord. Hence we see the great power of the Word of God it is able to pearce the hardest heart that is The word of God makes mention of two sorts of swords The sword of the mouth and the materiall sword as that place in the Hebrewes The Word of God is liuely and mighty in operation and sharper then a two edged sword Heb. 4.12 entereth thorough euen vnto the diuiding asunder of the Soule and the Spirit and of the Ioynts and the Marrow and is a decerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart The people of the Iewes before that Peter spake vnto them were full of hardnesse of heart yea their hearts before were as hard as steele nothing could pricke or pearce them Act. 2.37 they had committed monstrous murder they shed innocent bloud euen the bloud of the sonne of God and yet they were neuer touched in their hearts for that sinne But when Peter came with his weapon namely the Word of God and told them that they were those that had crucified the Lord of life this wounded them to the quicke as that they cryed out in the bitternesse of their loules O men and brethren what shall wee doe to bee saued Oh tell vs tell vs whether there be not some course yet to be taken that wee that haue beene such desperate sinners might yet againe obtaine Gods fauour and bee saued This was a blessed battel that was fought with them behold then in them the wonderfull power of the Word of God It cuts the throat of sinne and makes men become dead vnto sinne that they might become a liue vnto God Ier. 23.29 Is not the Word of Iehouah like vnto fire It is able to melt and mollifie a heart of steele it is like a hammer that breakes the hardest stone euen so this Word of God is able to bruise a stony heart which is as hard as flint Rom. 15.16 I am not ashamed sayth the Apostle of the Gospell of God because I know that it is the power of God to saluation to all them that beleeue 1. Cor. 1.21 Yea it is compared to a sacrificing knife Ephes 2.1.2 which will kill and cut the throat of sinne and make the most rebellious heart to breake It will put spirit and life in the dead hearts of dead secure sinners euen such as lay dead rotting in sin If it enter not into thee to the rooting out of sinne and the cutting downe of thy vncleannesse for then it pearceth for thy good to life eternall It wil bee sure to wound and to pearce thy dead and benummed soule to the hardning of thee in thy sinnes to death eternall Esay 55. for it neuer returnes in vaine but is eyther the sauor of life vnto life or the sauor of death vnto death The Lord sent his word vnto Pharaoh againe and againe by Moses and Aaron but hee would not bee humbled by it Exod. 9. ●7 1. Reg. 22.8 therefore hee became the more hardned in sinne And Ahab was then the deadliest enemy to his owne soule Mich. 2.7 when hee hated Michai for not speaking to his fantasie but warned him faithfully of the iudgement which afterward came vpon him Zach. 7.11 The Word of God is an aduersary to none but to such as are aduersaries to themselues Note this well neyther doth it condemne any but such as without repentance assuredly shall one day bee condemned of the Lord. And therefore let the wicked wretches of the world stoppe their eares neuer so much from the hearing of the threatnings of the Word yet they shall neuer stoppe that iudgement which the Word hath threatned There is a cry that will come at Midnight and will waken the dead But Oh blessed are they who in time are wakened out of the sleepe of their sinnes before that dreadfull iudgement come This serues to commend vnto vs the excellencie Vse 1 and power of the Word of God which is able both to kill sinners and to make them aliue again and puts a manifest difference hetweene the Word of man the Word of God All the wisdom learning eloquence and wit of men is not able to wound the hard heart of a wicked obstinate and rebellious sinner onely the Word of God can doe it euen the plaine and simple preaching of the Word can doe it 1. Cor. 1.21 Psal 19. The Law of the Lord is perfect to conuert the soule There is more power in the plaine rude and simple preaching of the Word of God to conuert a sinner then in the most learned and excellentest eloquence in men nay Rom. 10.14.15 it is impossible for all the eloquence in the World to saue a Soule it is peculiar onely to the simple preaching of the Gospell nor all the Writings of men cannot turne the heart vnto God vnlesse the Lord doe blesse the preaching of the Word to doe it and though nothing bee so contrary to our Nature as the Word of God yet nothing is so powerfull to conuert as is this word by Gods blessing vpon it being his owne ordinance appointed to that end Secondly seeing the Word of God is of this power Vse 2 that it will enter and pearce into stony hearts and seeing if it cut not downe sinne and corruption it will wound to death eternall all rebellious and hard hearted sinners Oh then let vs submit our hearts vnto it let vs suffer the Word to pearce and wound our hearts for sinne to cut downe all sinne and corruption in vs here or else it will bee the Lords Sword of the Spirit to kill vs and to wound vs to death eternall Ephes 6.1 Hee will smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth and slay the wicked and rebellious with the breath of his lippes that is the Lord will make good all those feareful iudgements which his seruants haue denounced against them in his name Esay 11.4 And as the raine that fals makes the earth more fruitfull or else more barren so it fareth with the Word it eyther cuts downe sinne to our amendment or else leaues most deadly wounds in our soules euen to death eternall Now then seeing the Word of God is so powerfull Oh how should this stirre vp euery man and woman to the hearing of