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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 2: VER. 2.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First,1 That in affliction men see their need of God. So the Chaldee paraphrase upon this place,2 Always when I bring straights upon them then they pray before me and say, Now we see plainly that we have no other God besides thee, Oh! redeem us because we are thy people Israel; so that's the meaning.
First,1 That in affliction men see their need of God. So the Chaldae paraphrase upon this place,2 Alwaies when I bring straights upon them then they pray before me and say, Now we see plainly that we have no other God besides thee, Oh! redeem us because we are thy people Israel; so that's the meaning.
- 1Obs. 1.
- 2Chaldee pa•ephraseChaldae pa•ephrase
Secondly,1 Even Hypocrites and the vilest Wretches that are, in the time of their distress, will claim interest in God and cry to him; even those that have departed most from him will be ready to claim interest in him in their distress. What an impudency was it for this people that had so grossly departed from God, that had gone so against their light, and yet they will come boldly and claim their interest in God in the time of their affliction? Truly we see the same spirit in men at this very day, the most wicked and vile ungodly