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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 9: VER. 9.
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.
And I that am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
And I that am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles, as in the daies of the solemn feast.
The dependence is this: You say you are grown rich by those sinful ways of yours; I am grown rich, I 1have found substance: You think now you have no need of me, you have found substance other ways, and I am forgotten by you; but you should remember that I am the Lord your God, and that God that brought you out from the Land of Egypt; there was a time when you had need of me, there was a time when you knew not what to do without my help, when you were in great affliction, then I delivered you with a mighty hand, you should remember those old mercies of mine; Oh! but you are ungrateful, you do not think what I have done for you in bringing you out of the Land of Egypt; If I be the same God still, why might not you live upon me, and receive as much good from me, as others? You will go and seek to shift for your selves by false ways, and forsake me, A•• not I the Lord? that God that brought you out of the Land of Egypt, Have not I by what I have done for you shown plainly to you that you might aswell provide for your selves by me, as by any other God, by my ways aswell as by any other ways that you take? Can any God work for you so as I have done? Is there that good to be got in those ways of sin as there is in mine? I am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt; not only at that time, delivering of you, but ever since, providing for you, graciously preserving of you, doing you good many ways, from the time that I have been a God to you, and yet you do thus wretchedly forsake me; In all your straits I have helped you, in all your necessities I have supplied you, in all your difficulties I have relieved you, in all ⟨p. 336⟩your distresses I have delivered you, in all you burdens I have eased you, every way of my providence hath been gracious to you, from the very time of your coming out of the Land of Egypt, how did I provide for you in the wilderness after by Judges, raising you up Kings? And I am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt. The Observation is,