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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. › Chapter 9 › Verse 3 › The Lords Land.
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 It was a Land that God had espied out for his People. In Ezek. 20. 6. as a special place. God was over looking all the world; where should I have a good Land (or Country) to set my People, and the text saith, God had espied it out.
- 1Reas. 1.
Secondly, It was the Land of Promise, therefore the §2Lords Land, in Heb. 11. 9. By faith he sojourned in the Land of Promise as in a strange Country. No Land in Scripture is called the Land of Promise but only this.
Thirdly, The Lords Land, it was a Land given by Oath §3in Gen. 24. 7.