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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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Israel though they had been 400. years in Egypt under grievous afflictions, yet they continued exceeding abominable and wicked. The fire of their affliction did seem to harden their hearts, as much as the fire of the furnace did harden the bricks: Their hearts were clay, foul, dirty hearts, and were hardened by their afflictions.
Israel though they had been 400. years in Egypt under grievous afflictions, yet they continued exceeding abominable and wicked. The fire of their affliction did seeme to harden their hearts, as much as the fire of the furnace did harden the bricks: Their hearts were clay, foule, dirty hearts, and were hardned by their afflictions.
And secondly,1 when God came to deliver Israel out of Egypt, God found them to be in a very wicked condition then; then their Father was an Amorite, and their mother an Hittite, then they were thus vile when God came to deliver them, in the day wherein they were borne, (for their deliverance is their birth.)
- 1Obser.
Oh the freeness of Gods grace! God often told them that his grace was free,1 and so indeed it was if he found them thus as he did, for so you shall find if you read the story of the people of Israel, that when God sent Moses unto them, they were a very wicked and stubborn people, even at that very time when God came with his deliverance.
Oh the freenesse of Gods grace! God often told them that his grace was free,