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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.
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,
Or as Calvin hath it: (and it's a peculier 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 mercie, 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 commonlie hits as right as any: And this Interpretation may be of verie good use to us thus,
- 12. Calvin.
Let us consider our selves, that if all Gods merciful 1dealings towards us were to begin again, if we were to go through all those straits, and fears, and sorrows that we have passed through, our hearts would shake within us: as a Mariner that hath past through dangerous Seas, Oh he thinks if I were to pass over these again, it would be hard and grievous: Now let us consider of this, if God should but put us into the same condition