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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 11 › Verse 1: VERS. 1.
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We must not think therefore as soon as we come under grievous afflictions, that God hath cast us off from being Sons; though they were in Egypt, yet still they were my Sons. Now we are ready to think that if God bring us into sore afflictions then we are no more sons; No, thou mayest be delivered up to the power of the enemy, and yet a son of God still, and no slave for all that, and no enemy. There's a notable Scripture in Deut. 32. 10. 1where it is said of the people of Israel, That they were in the waste howling wilderness, and yet they were as the apple of Gods eye.: so thou maest be delivered up to the wast howling wilderness, to suffer sore things, to be banished from thy house and home, and to wander up and down in the wilderness, and yet remain as the apple of Gods ⟨p. 14⟩eye. It is a strange sight indeed to see a child of God, an Heir of Heaven, a Co heir with Jesus Christ, one dearer unto God, than Heaven and Earth, to be under the power, the humours, the lusts of wicked men, of base ungodly 2ones; yet it is so, yea, for a time they may be slaves to Satan; I say, those that God hath an eternal love to even are for a season oft times slaves to Satan: But then they have not the comfort of this Son-ship, nor do not know it. But now they may know themselves to be Sons, and yet slaves to the humours of wicked and ungodly men, there is not a stranger sight in the world, I 3believe the Angels in Heaven do not see a stranger sight that they more admire at, when they see a godly man to be under the lusts of wicked men; but this is Gods work for the present: God intends to manifest himself in another way hereafter, but for the present he fetches about the glory of his own ends this way, to let even his own dear sons to be in Egypt. But God calls them out of Egypt, God hath his time to deliver his people and call them out of Egypt: and 'tis but a Call, and it's done, it is 4as easily done as a man that gives a call for such a one out of such a place; let our bondage be never so great, 'tis but a word from God to deliver us.