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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 10: VER. 10.
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.
There is not much difficulty in the words. The Notes briefly are these,
That it's God that speaks by his Prophets; Though Prophets are mean, and the messengers of God mean, yet so 1long as they speak to you in his Name, the Authority of what they say it is above any; They may be under their Auditors many ways, but the message they bring it is above them; though they are weak, yet there's the power of God goes along with what they speak, to make it good; and therefore you shall find when Christ sent his Disciples to preach, Go (saith he) and teach all Nations; ⟨p. 345⟩but first he saith, All power is given to me in Heaven 2and Earth, then the words that follow are, Go ye therefore and teach all Nations; as if he should say, All the power that is given to me shall go along with your teaching; it is the Lord that speaks, the Lord Christ that speaks in his Word by his Messengers; He that hears you, hears me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me.
That it's God that speaks by his Prophets; Though Prophets are mean, and the messengers of God mean, yet so 1long as they speak to you in his Name, the Authoritie of what they say it is above any; They may be under their Auditors many waies, but the message they bring it is above them; though they are weak, yet there's the power of God goes along with what they speak, to make it good; and therefore you shall find when Christ sent his Disciples to preach, Go (saith he) and teach all Nations; ⟨p. 345⟩but first he saith, All power is given to me in Heaven 2