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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 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.
Thirdly, God will take account of what becomes of the 1Word, Labour and Pains of his Prophets; for so he speaks in a way of upbraiding of them, God will take account of all the Spirits that his Ministers spend, of every drop of their sweat, and of all their watchings in the night, I sent my Prophets rising early, and going to bed late, God will take account of all, and you shall know that there hath been a Prophet among you, the Ministers shall be brought out to say and testify: Lord, I was in such a place, and I revealed thy mind thus and thus unto them in these and these ways, that they could not but be convinced of, and yet still they continued thus and thus wicked.
Thirdly, God will take account of what becomes of the 1Word, Labor and Pains of his Prophets; for so he speaks in a way of upbraiding of them, God will take account of all the Spirits that his Ministers spend, of every drop of their sweat, and of all their watchings in the night, I sent my Prophets rising early, and going to bed late, God will take account of all, and you shall know that there hath been a Prophet among you, the Ministers shall be brought out to say and testifie: Lord, I was in such a place, and I reveal'd thy mind thus and thus unto them in these and these waies, that they could not but be convinc'd of, and yet still they continued thus and thus wicked.
- 1Obs. 3.
Fourthly, It is a great mercy for God to declare his mind to 1men again and again; I have multiplied visions, saith God: It were a mercy for God but once to tell us of his mind, and if we will not come in at first, for ever to cast us off; but I have multiplied visions, in