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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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Again,1 I will not add mercy. God doth not use to take away his mercy fully from a people or from a soul: but when mercy hath been showed and abused, after much mercy hath been received, and that being abused, then God saith he will not add more. You have a parallel place to this, Judg. 10. 16. I will deliver you no more, saith God, I have delivered you many times, my mercy hath been abused, I will deliver you no more. It is just with God when mercy is abused, that we should never know farther what mercy meaneth. Mercy as it is a precious thing, so it is a tender thing, and a dangerous thing to abuse it. There is nothing that more quickly works the ruin of a people or of a soul, then abused mercy.
Again,1 I will not adde mercy. God doth not use to take away his mercy fully from a people or from a soul: but when mercy hath been shewed and abused, after much mercy hath been received, and that being abused, then God saith hee will not adde more. You have a parallel place to this, Iudg. 10. 16. I will deliver you no more, saith God, I have delivered you many times, my mercy hath been abused, I will deliver you no more. It is just with God when mercy is abused, that wee should never know farther what mercy meaneth. Mercy as it is a precious thing, so it is a tender thing, and a dangerous thing to abuse it. There is nothing that more quickly works the ruine of a people or of a soule, then abused mercy.
- 1Obser. 5
But further, I will utterly take them away. Before it was only that they should be scattered, the name of the first child before was but Jezreel, that they should be the scattered of the Lord; but the 2. is Loruhamah, that they shall have no more mercy from the Lord.