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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77979	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070; Thomason E588_1; ESTC R206293	515,009	635

it our consciences would have upbraided us the generation to come would have cursed us the Nations about us and our very enemies would have scorned us and derided us for our base cowardliness for our sordid spirits for an unworthy generation that should see it self and posterity sinking into misery and brought under slavery and out of base fear and sluggish litherness of spirit and effeminate softness should suffer all to be brought into bondage to the humors and lusts of a few men We can therefore with comfort and boldness stand at Gods Tribunal and plead the uprightness of our hearts and justness of our cause in this Controversie whatever becomes of it But in the controversie that God hath against us there we fall down at his feet and acknowledg our selves guilty before him yea we come with sackcloath upon our loins and ashes on our heads with ropes on our necks and plead only mercy for our lives And this is the work that we have to do in all the daies of our humiliation to seek to make an Atonement between God and our souls and the Land in regard of that dreadful controversie he hath against us Now blessed God because thou tellest us in thy word Because I WILL do this therefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel Thou threatnest hard great and sore evils and thou callest now to us because Thou wilt do this England O England prepare to meet God We come Oh that this might be our answer we come Lord and meet thee with our souls bowed towards thee with our hearts bleeding that we have provothee to cause so much bloodshed of our brethren amongst us O Lord our hearts are open to thee and with trembling spirits we cry to the Lord what wilt thou have us do If thou proceedest against us in thy controversie we are undone we are undone Oh Lord forgive Oh Lord arise and be merciful we beseech thee for by whom shall Jacob rise for he is small by whom shall the people arise by whom shall the power of godliness and thine Ordinances be maintained How happy were we think some if the controversie between the King and us were at an end that we might have peace Oh if the people were happy that were in such a case how happy the people that were at peace with the King of Heaven If the controversie between God and us were at an end we should be happie indeed The Lord and the Land is at a controversie and this controversie makes us cry out unto God but yet wo unto us here is the misery we yet keep our sins that make the controversie Jer. 35. Will the Lord reserve his anger for ever will he keep it unto the end Mark what the answer is Behold thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest Thus you have said but what is the fruit of this You have done evil as you could We in the daies of our Fasts cry Lord wilt thou reserve thine anger for ever wilt thou keep it unto the end Behold thus we speak but yet we continue to do evil as we can Isa 59.9 We looked for light saith the text but behold obscuritie for brightness but we walk in darkness we grope for the wall like the blind We indeed grope as if we had no eyes and we stumble at noon day as if it were night Men to this day are ready to cry out and say what shal we do as if the way were not cleer before us what we should do The way is cleer enough if we had hearts but we grope as if we had no eyes and we stumble at noon day as in the night In many places of the Kingdom they roar out as bears and they have cause to do so For they are miserably spoiled their wives ravished their houses plundered themselves imprisoned and for the rest of us we mourn like doves night and day and we look for judgment and there is none and for salvation but it is far from us Mark what follows For our transgressions are multiplied before thee there is the ground of al the controversie between God and us and as for our sins they testify against us and our trangressions are with us Surely my Brethren God is willing to be at peace with England again the controversy is great and sore yet we may confidently speak that the Lord is yet willing to be at peace with England and the sufferings of England go as neer the heart of God as ours Oh that we knew then what it is that is the great make-bate between God and us that we might get rid of it Would you know it 2. Sam. 20.21 saith Joab there Deliver us Sheba the son Bichri and we will depart from the Citie and go every one unto his tent If amongst us Delinquents were punished as they ought if the hearts of people were prepared to have the remainders of superstition and Idolatry cast out if they were willing to receive Jesus Christ as King among them the sound of retreat would soon be heard the controversie would soon be at an end and except this be the foundation of our peace either there will be no peace at all or it will not hold long In our raising of forces therefore to help our selves and our brethren seing we pretend we will do more than before and it is time we should if we be not a people destinated to destruction and ruine be sure we begin here let us do more than ever we did before to make up this controversie with God It is reported of Achior one of Holopherness his Captains that he counselled Holopherness to enquire first whether the Jews had offended their God before he attempted to make war against them for if they had he then assured him that that would be their ruine and he might go up and overcome them but if he could not hear that they had sinned against their God it was in vain for him to strive against them Truly it concerns us neerly to make up our peace with God that when our adversaries come out against us they may not indeed be made use of to avenge Gods quarrel upon us for then they will easily improve all their advantages this way and say indeed that they are not come out against us without the Lord Every victory they now get they are ready to please themselves in this and say that God fighteth against us and God approveth them they tell us the reason they prevail is because God is against us and so we know Rabshekah did though a foul railer yet saith he Are we come up without the Lord And the enemies of David Psalm 71.12 Mine enemies have said God hath forsaken him now persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him Thus they will be ready to say upon any occasion now the Lord hath left them now let us take them And certainly if the Lord should suffer them to prevail many of them would think