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A30572 An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes. Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646. 1652 (1652) Wing B6069; ESTC R25957 661,665 562

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of condescension with them though they bee unfaithfull to him yet he will be faithfull to them Oh my brethren this point hath abundance of sweetnes in it take heed of abusing it Thy sins cannot overcome Gods goodnesse let Gods goodness overcome thy wickednesse And they shal know the Lord They shal know that I am the Lord so the Septuagint hath it so the old Latin thou shalt know because I am the Lord but we rather reade it as it is in your bookes They shall know the Lord. But how comes this in In faithfulnesse and they shall know the Lord. Thus upon these two reasons First because this shall be the means to keepe the Church the Spouse of Christ in faithfulnesse for ever they shall know Christ to be the Lord. As if Christ should say The reason of all your vile departings from me all this while what is it you doe not know me you doe not see into the bounty and glory into the excellency of my worship and what I am that is the reason you are gone from me and have been unfaithfull to me but when I betroth you my self again you shall know me you shall see so much beauty and excellency in me mine Ordinances that you shall never depart from me Low thoughts of God are the cause of superstitious vanities Had men high and honourable thoughts of God they would never thinke to put him off with such bauble-worship as they do Acts 9. 7. it is said the God of glory appeared to Abraham that is given as a ground why Abraham would forsake his Countrey his fathers house and his kindred if we once knew the Lord and that the God of glory had appeared to us we would be ready to forsake all for him and give up our selves unto him in an everlasting covenant Secondly And they shall know me This is as a fruit of my betrothing my self unto them as a fruite of the Covenant Jer. 31. 34. They shal teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity c. It is a fruit of the conjugall union betwixt Christ and the soul As it is betwixt man and wife when they are but only suitors well willers they do not communicate their secrets one to another but when they once come to be marryed together then they open all their hearts there is no secret but they will disclose one to another So saith God when I am once marryed to you I will open my whole heart to you the secret of the Lord is with them that feare him Those that have but natural knowledge understands something of the wayes of Religion of the minde of Christ As a man that is in the dark may know where he is by feeling he may know what length and thickness many things in the house are of but when the light of the day comes then hee knowes what the ●●is in the roome after another manner then he did in the darke this is the difference betweene knowledge of God in a natural man and the knowledge of one espoused to Christ by his naturall knowledge he may understand the hystory of the Gospell he may have some generall notions of God and of Christ but when the Sun of righteousnesse ariseth then be sees the excellency and glory of God then he sees God shining in all his attributes he sees that in Christ which drawes his heart unto him in an everlasting Covenant As we reade Cant. 7. 5. Christ is held in the galleries that is Christ assoone as he is marryed to the foule takes it as it were by the hand and walkes into the Galleries and there openeth his heart unto her There is many a sweet turne that a gracious heart hath with Christ in his ordinances wherin Christ openeth even his whole soul unto it Joh. 15. 15. All things saith Christ that I have heard of my Father I have made knowne unto you An admirable Text surely you cannot but know the Lord then Here is the fruit of our union with Christ Oh that our hearts were inflamed with desire after further conjugall communion with him according to the capacity of the soul so Christ makes knowne to it what he hath heard of the Father Certainly Christ hath heard great things of the Father he is the wisdome of the Father he hath been with the Father from all eternity and the Father loves him he will tell him all the glorious things he hath in his heart and Christ will hide none of those things from his Saints This is the priviledg of a Saint who would not be godly by which he shall come to know the minde of the Father according to what Christ knowes of it Yea and Christ makes God known to the Saints in another way then others know him 2 Sam. 7. 27. Thou O Lord God of Hosts hast revealed unto thy servant so you reade it in your bookes but it is in the Hebrew Lord thou hast revealed this to the eare of thy servant I wonder how that word to the eare comes to be left out in your books in which indeed the emphasis lye I am sure it is so in the Text. When God makes known himselfe to his people he revealeth things to their Eare as we to a friend who is intimate with us we speake a thing to his eare There is many a secret which JESUS CHRIST speakes in the eart of his Saints which others never come to be made acquainted with 2 Cor. 4. 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darknes hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ It would aske time for the full opening the gradations of this Scripture here is knowledg the knowledg of the glory of God the light of the knowledg of the glory of God and shining and shining into our hearts and into our hearts in the face of Jesus Christ Surely then they shall know the Lord and they shall know him in a very spirituall way The light of the Saints is a light three story high First they have the light of nature which other men have the light of reason Secondly they have the light of common gifts which other men have too and that is a story higher then the other Thirdly they have the light of a sanctifying spirit that is a third loft and they shall come to a fourth story and that is the light of glory The light that other men have is but as the light you have in a lower room in ware-houses which in some you know is so little that you are faine to use a candle at noone day so some natural men have onely the light of reason which indeed is rather like your cellars that have but a little light