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A30575	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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.	1651 (1651)	Wing B6071; ESTC R26576	401,284	550

notwithstanding our sins we should go on in the waies of obedience to him notwithstanding any afflictions that we meet withal for our obedience Again a Second Note is this Sinners are at the very mouth of misery the brink of destruction when they think not of it there 's nothing but giving of them up And then Thirdly It 's nothing but Gods free mercy that keeps us from being destroyed le's the Lords mercy that we are not consumed In the Fourth place Sin puts God to a stand How shall I do it It brings disorder into the world God must set his infinit wisdom on work to bring thing about to his own glory sin hath brought disorder and confusion Now saith God I must set mind infinite wisdom on work to bring glory out of this confusion If God hath any good intentions to thee know they sin laies such difficulties in Gods way to find out a way for thee as puts him to a kind of stand as thus For God to find out a way that all the wrong that sin hath done to him should be made up and yet thy soul should be sav'd 't is the hardest thing in the world Thou canst commit sin easily but I say when the sin is committed for God then to find out a way that all that wrong that 's done to him should be made up as it must be for otherwise all the disorder will not be brought into order and yet thy soul sav'd it 's the hardest thing in the world and were not God a God infinite in wisdom it would put him so to it as he were never able to find out a way God doth seem as it were to be at a stand How shall I do to save these sinners and yet not to wrong my self Oh! this should humble us for our sins As if a child should do so much evil as to bring himself into such bryars and troubles as that his tender father being affected with his sad condition would fain help him but if he doth help him he is put to abundance of difficulties for the helping of him and he is fain to beat his brains and study waies and means how he shall come to save this his child from utter undoing now if the child hath any ingenuity in him he will not only think it 's no great matter so be it I be delivered Oh! but this will break his heart Oh! what troubles have I brought my father into It is thus with us in reference to God if we look upon God thus as personating a man And then in the Fifth place The salvation of a sinner it breaks through a great many reasonings and workings of Gods heart How shall I do it saith God We little think what reasonings there are between Mercy and Justice about our lives about our souls many times could we but hear what reasonings there are in Heaven between Mercy and Justice about our lives Oh! it would go to our hearts The great salvation that comes by Christ it was not determined without many reasonings between Mercy and Justice there was presented to God whatsoever Justice could say and what ever mercy could say What saith God must my son be under my wrath for the satisfying of Justice and be made a Curse yet this must be Justice requires satisfaction How can it be done without the Son of God being made a Curse for mans sin these kind of reasonings there are in the heart of God for saving of mans soul in 1 Sam. 16. 8. we reade of Abishai and Davids reasoning the case about Sauls life saith Abishai to David God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day now therefore let me smite him c. No saith David do not smite him do not destroy him and thus they reasoned one with another Saul was in a very ill case when there was that reasoning about his life such a case are we in many times the Justice and Mercy of God doth reason about our lives and souls Oh! how do we depend upon God for our lives and souls and if we be sav'd we are sav'd through many reasonings But the main Point of all is this That according to the relation that a people a sinful people or persons have unto God So God finds it a difficult thing to execute wrath upon them How shall I do it The wrath of God is many times brought to the birth and God cannot as it were to speak after the manner of men know how to put strength to it to bring it forth This is the reason that in Scripture we have such sending after sinners and crying to them to return such earnest wishes Oh! that they would return and such pleadings with them They will not come in and return This is the reason why we reade of the Lord whetting his Sword and bending his Bow and preparing his Arrows Why is not God ready at any time to execute judgment upon a sinner Oh no he will be whetting and bending and preparing and all because it is a work that he is loth to go through withal as it were and this is the reason why God will not stir up his wrath or if it be stir'd up he will call it back again Lament 3. 33. The Lord afflicts not willingly neither doth he grieve the children of men and all this is because Gods nature is to be merciful mercy pleases him and the Lord doth perfectly foresee and hath perfectly in his view all the reasons that might move him to mercy As now thus These are the things that makes God to be at a stand when he comes to execute judgment upon a people or persons that have relation to him where his Name is professed and where himself is worshiped First This reason is presented The many prayers of the Saints withstand against justice Justice must break through all the prayers of all the Saints of God that are in such places and this is not an easie matter we account it not an easie matter for to break through a mighty Army God cannot come to a people that he is related to and is worshiped by but that he must break through an Army the Army of the prayers of his people now saith God How shall I do it Oh! it is a mighty Army that is between me and them Yea Secondly The Lord looks upon such a place with pity Because of the many children and little ones that there are in such a place yea the children of his own people You know when God was about destroying of Neniveh he look'd upon the many thousands that knew not the difference between the right hand or the left But when God comes to destroy a Kingdom that doth worship him he looks upon those many infants and the little ones and sees them many of the posterity of his Servants As they are but littles ones that moves his bowels they have not

defence of himself against Samuel the Prophet Sixthly Greedie of gain 1 Sam. 15. 19. Samuel charges him with flying upon the spoil Seventhly Regarding the people more than the Commandement of God 1 Sam. 15. 24. I feared the people saith he and obeyed their voice Eighthly Seeking his vain honor 1 Sam. 15. 30. I have sinned yet honor me now I pray thee before the Elders of my people and before Israel Ninthly Gods Spirit leaves him 1 Sam. 16. 14. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him Tenthly A poor low spirit to help himself when God was departed 1 Sam 16. 17. when he was troubled with the evil spirit he was fain to except of the poor help that Musick could afford him Eleventhly Subtil and crafty Psal 57. 6. David saith speaking of Saul That he had prepared a net for his feet and digged a pit so Psal 142. 3. Twelfthly Proud and haughty Psal 59. 12. For the sin of their mouth and for the words of their lips let them be taken in their pride Viz Can the Son of Jesse give you fields and Vinyards 1 Sam. 22. 7. 13ly Given to Cursing Psal 53. 12. Cursing and lying they speak 14ly Envious 1 Sam. 18 8 9. When they had sung in the dance Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands The Text saith Saul was very wroth and the thing displeased him and Saul eyed David from that day and forward 15ly Hating the Saints 1 Sam. 18. 11. Saul cast his Javeling at David and said I will smite David to the wall And vers 13. He removed him from him And 1 Sam. 17. 1. Saul spake to all his servants that they should kill David And vers 17. he calls him his Enemy saying to Michel Why hast thou sent away mine Enemy 16ly Cruel 1 Sam. 22. 18 19. He caused to be slain 85 Priests and smote the City of Nob the City of the Priests men women and children sucklings oxen asses sheep with the edge of the sword Psal 7. 2. David prayes for help lest he Saul tear my soul saith he like a Lyon renting it in pieces c. And Psal 57 4. He saith My soul is among Lyons men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 17ly Treacherous Pretends a Benefit intends a mischief 1 Sam. 18. 17. And Saul said to David Behold my elder daughter Merob her will I give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me and fight the Lords battles for Saul said Let not mine hand be upon him but let the band of the Philistims be upon him 18ly False of his word ver 19. But it came to passe at the time when Merab Sauls daughter should have been given to David that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife 1 Sam. 26. 21. Return my son David for I wil do thee no harm yet chap. 27. 1. David was so pursued by him that he fled to Achish King of Gath. Psal 59. 12. Lying they speak 19ly He regards not oathes 1. Sam. 19. 6. And Saul sware as the Lord liveth he shal not be slain yet ver 10. 11. he would have smitten him to the wal with his Javalin and missing that he sent messengers to murder him in his house 20ly Stout against his conscience and all means that God used to reclaim him 1 Sam. 24. 17. 18. 19. 20. Thou art more righteous then I c I know wel that thou shalt surely be King and that the Kingdom of Israel shal be established in thine hand c. Hence David Psal 59. praying against Saul as appears in the title of the Psalm ver 5. saith Be not merciful to wicked transgressors 21ly Preferring base men and rejecting the good Psa 59. 7. David was his enemy but Doeg a mighty man with him 22ly Cares not for his own Laws to satisfy his humors 1 Sam. 28. 9. where having suppressed wizards and witches yet he seeks to them and promises immunity to them 23ly He is unwearied in his malice never rests but follows David as one hunts a partridge from place to place if disappointed one way he tryes another sends to Davids house then to Naioth then to Keilah then to Ziph then to Engedi to Hachilah Saul sought him every day 1 Sam. 23. 14. Psal 7. 14. Behold be travelleth with mischief c. 24ly One that could not be overcome by kindnesse love faithfulness not taking advantage c. 1. Sam. 24. 4. c. chap. 26. 8. 9. 25ly Vexed because he could not have his mind Psa 57. 14 15. They return and grin like a dog vexed to lose his morsel 26ly Desperate forsaking of God and going to the Devil for counsel 1 Sam. 28. 7. and afterward wilfully kils himself 2. What Jeroboam was 1. One that seemed to be much for the good of the people but when he had power in his own hands then none more fierce then himself 1 King 11. 27. He cared not for the people Hos 13. 1. 2. One whose carriage was very taking he was diligent industrious and valiant a man fit for rule 1 Kin. 11. 28. but when he had got power into his own hands there was nothing but imperious domineering Tacitus saith of Galba That al men judged him fit for rule til he did come to it 3 Subjecting of Religion unto Policy 1 King 12. 26. And Jeroboam said Now shall the Kingdom return to the House of David if this people go up to do Sacrifice in the House of the Lord at Jerusalem Whereupon the King took Counsel and made two Calves of Gold c. 4. False pretending one thing and meaning another 1 King 12. 28. He said unto the people It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt 5. Idolatrous ibid. and 1 King 14. 9. But thou hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods and molten Images c. 6. He was a conscience oppressor He laid snares for those that went up to Jerusalem to worship as was noted Hos 9. 8. 7. A scorner Hos 7. 5. He stretched out his hand with scorners 8. Subtil 1 King 12. 31. He ordained such a feast as was at Jerusalem made an house of high places and Priests that all might be furnished like the worship at Jerusalem 9. Intemperate Hos 7 5. In the day of our King the Princes have made him sick with bottles of Wine c. 10 Despising the true Ministers of God and loving a base Clergie 1 King 12. 31. Made Priests of the lowest of the People 11 Enraged against the Servants of God and God himself when opposed 1 King 13. 4. And it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God which cried against the Altar in Bethel that he put forth his hand from the Altar