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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 12: VER. 12.
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.
As if he should say thus, You pride your selves in your 1Father JACOB; yea, but consider in what a mean condition Jacob was, and if there hath come any privilege to you by being the seed of Jacob, it is the mere free Grace of God, and not from any excellency there was in your Father Jacob. He would take off the conceit of the excellency there was in their Father Jacob, for whose worthiness they thought that God surely would not forsake his posterity, though they were very wicked: as if he should say, Consider what a poor condition your Fa▪ Jacob was in.
As if he should say thus, You pride your selves in your 1Father JACOB; yea, but consider in what a mean condition Jacob was, and if there hath come any priviledg to you by being the seed of Jacob, it is the meer free Grace of God, and not from any excellency there was in your Father Jacob. He would take off the conceit of the excellency there was in their Father Jacob, for whose worthiness they thought that God surely would not forsake his posterity, though they were very wicked: as if he should say, Consider what a poor condition your Fa▪ Jacob was in.
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First, He was a poor exile, he was fain to fly for his 1life, even from his fathers house; And then when he did fly, he fled to his Uncle, and what was he there? a poor Servant, he lived in two hard Apprenticeships (as it were) he found his Uncle Laban to be a very hard Master to him for seven years, and for seven years after that behaved himself roughly and rigidly with him, and ⟨p. 357⟩