Israels prayer in time of trouble, with Gods gracious answer thereunto; or, An explication of the 14th chapt. of ... Hoseah, 7 sermons, Volumen1

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Página 21 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Página 93 - ... when he shall come and pray toward this house; hear thou in heaven, thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for : that all the people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have builded is called by thy name.
Página 93 - Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.
Página 5 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Página 71 - The leaves of the tree of life, which are for the healing of the nations...
Página 130 - And he worfhipped him. 39 And Jefus faid, For judgment I am come into this world ; that they which fee not might fee ; and that 40 they which fee, might be made blind...
Página 100 - When the waters stood as a wall on the right hand and on the left of Israel, as they passed through the Red Sea, this was a work of God's own power ; for water is unstable, and cannot keep together by its own strength, nor be contained within any bounds of its own. So great a work is it to see the mutable wills and resolutions of men kept close to any pious and holy purposes.
Página 7 - ... the shining of God's merc•ies on us, should dishearten and extinguish lust in us. This is the use we should make of mercy. Say not, " He is my God ; therefore I may presume upon him ; but he is mine, therefore I must return unto him. Because he is God, I will be afraid to provoke him ; and because he is mine, I will be afraid to forfeit him. He is so great, I must not dare to offend him ; he is so precious, I must not venture to lose him.
Página 45 - ... differ ; the more bounty God shows, the more humility he requires. Those mines that are richest are deepest, those stars that are highest seem smallest, the goodliest buildings have the lowest foundations ; the more God honoureth men, the more they should humble themselves ; the more the fruit, the lower the branch on which it grows ; pride is ever the companion of emptiness.
Página 95 - When poor men make requests to us, we usually answer them as the echo does the voice — the answer cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom find among men Jael's courtesy, giving milk to those that ask water, except it be as this was, an entangling benefit, the better to introduce a mischief. There are not many Naamans among us that, when you beg of them one talent, will force you to take two. But God's answer to our prayers is like a multiplying glass, which renders the request much greater...

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