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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 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 the next is, Old mercies are great engagements to duty, 1and great aggravations of our sin or neglect of duty: But we have had occasion to speak of these things for merlie. It follows; And I will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles.
- 1Obs. 3.
By way of Interrogation some read it thus, What shall I the Lord that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt 1make thee to dwell in Tabernacles? Shall I yet continue my wonted love to you as to make you to keep your Feast of Tabernacles still with joy as you were wont to do yearly? shall I do thus saith God?
By way of Interogation some reade it thus, What shall I the Lord that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt 1make thee to dwell in Tabernacles? Shall I yet continue my wonted love to you as to make you to keep your Feast of Tabernacles still with joy as you were wont to do yeerly? shall I do thus saith God?
- 1Expos. 1.
Or as Calvin hath it: (and it's a peculiar interpretation 1that he hath, different from all) it's as if God should say thus, It is a wonderful thing that you should be so forgetful of my great mercy, in bringing of you out of Egypt, it is so out of your minds that I had need work over that deliverance again; What, shall I cast you out of your houses, and bring you into captivity again, and then deliver you again, and bring you into the wilderness to dwell in Tabernacles again? shall I go over my work again? It is so much gone out of your minds and hearts, as I had need to quicken up your spirits to go all over it again; this is Calvins Interpretation upon this place; and he commonly hits as right as any: And this Interpretation may be of very good use to us thus,