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An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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Secondly, Call her name Loruhamah, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel.1
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There is a time when God will not have mercy upon a kingdom or upon ⟨p. 43⟩a particular people. Gather your sieves together, oh nation not worthy to be beloved, before the decree come forth. There is a time for the decree to come forth against a kingdom, when God will not be entreated; a time when though Noah, Job, and Daniel should stand before him, yet he will not be entreated, though they cry, cry •arly, cry aloud, cry with tears, cry with fasting, yet God will not be entreated. Gods mercy is precious, and he will not let it run out to waste, he will not be prodigal of it, a time wherein God will say,1 Now I have done, I have done with this people, mercy hath had her turn. It is true, except we had that immediate revelation that the Prophets had, we cannot now determine of the particular time; yet by examining Gods way toward his people in former times, the truth is, that those that laboured most to search Gods mind in his word, they were even afraid that this decree had been gone out upon us in England. It is true, God hath seemed for the present to tell us that he hath a prerogative, and he will have mercy upon whom he will have mercy: But yet neither are those altogether to be blamed, that even in their own hearts determined (as it were) that mercy was gone; except they did wholly limit God, and left nothing of prerogative at all to him, but because it was Gods ordinary way; and except God had wrought with us in a way of prerogative otherwise than ever he did with any nation before, they did then conclude that the decree was gone forth; and so it might be true, and what God may do with us yet we do not know. But this we can say, if the decree be not gone forth, if there be mercy for us, God hath showed his prerogative, that he will now go on in such a way otherwise than formerly he hath done in the world; and if God will do so, who can say against it?