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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.
Fifthly, It was a Land divided by Lot, and so the §5Lords Land; not only all the Land, but every piece in it, and the possession that any man had it was ordered by God himself, by Lot.
Sixthly, It was a Land wherein God dwelt himself, a §6Land that God called his own rest, Here will I rest for ever, Psal. 132. and God sware unto them that hardened their hearts in the wilderness, that they should not enter into ⟨p. 158⟩his Rest, that is, that they should not enter into the Land of Canaan. It was the Land wherein there was the Ordinances of God, and the Worship of God, and his Honour dwelt there, and so it had a peculiar blessing upon it above all the Land that was upon the face of the earth.
Sixthly, It was a Land wherein God dwelt himself, a §6Land that God call'd his own rest, Here will I rest for ever, Psal. 132. and God sware unto them that hardened their hearts in the wilderness, that they should not enter into ⟨p. 158⟩his Rest, that is, that they should not enter into the Land of Cana•n. It was the Land wherein there was the Ordinances of God, and the Worship of God, and his Honor dwelt there, and so it had a peculiar blessing upon it above all the Land that was upon the face of the earth.