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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 let us be merciful, as our Heavenly Father is merciful 1That is, Let servants and children that have offended you, let them see, that upon their returning they shall find as much favour from you, as ever they did; sometimes Governors when they are provoked, behave themselves so rigidly towards them that it makes them even desperate: God deals not so with you, do not you deal so with your inferiors.
And let us be merciful, as our Heavenly Father is merciful 1That is, Let servants and children that have offended you, let them see, that upon their returning they shall find as much favor from you, as ever they did; sometimes Governors when they are provok'd, behave themselves so ridgedly towards them that it makes them even desperate: God deals not so with you, do not you deal so with your inferiors.
- 1Use to persons offended by others.
And as God shows himself not to be changed, but will be the same towards this people as ever he was in goodness; and so it beseems us to be, that if we have shown respect any way to other, either in speeches or otherwise, if they appear to be what they were, it beseems us to be towards them as then, let them but appear to be what they were when such respect were shown to them, and according to the example of God it beseems us to show our selves to them again, and again, to what we then did. I that am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles.
And as God shews himself not to be changed, but wil be the same towards this people as ever he was in goodness; and so it beseems us to be, that if we have shewn respect anie way to other, either in speeches or otherwise, if they appear to be what they were, it beseems us to be towards them as then, let them but appear to be what they were when such respect were shown to them, and according to the example of God it beseems us to shew our selves to them again, and again, to what we then did. I that am the Lord thy God from the Land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in Tabernacles.