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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 12: VER. 12.
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Well then, he goes to Laban, he flies to Syria: that is, to his Uncle Laban, when he comes there he serves him, yea, he was a Servant to him for twenty years together in a low condition, so you find it in Gen. 31. 38. he saith there, He had served him twenty years, and in all this time he found Laban, though his kinsman, very rough to him; as many times young people coming to their kindred find them very rough and hard towards them. Laban was very churlish towards him: and very 1false to him, yet Jacob goes on and endures all the heat of the day, and the cold of the night, and Isaac his Father was alive all this while, and yet we never read that Isaac sent to him all this time, a thing much to be wondered at, there was never any intercourse that I read of between his Father Isaac and him all this while, but lives from his Father, though his Father, a rich man and a great man, and yet he goes on in a humble, patient, and quiet way, depending upon God to make an issue out of all his sufferings, and God did at length make a very glorious issue out of all, though Laban used him hardly. Now being Isaac's son and he had the blessing, one would have thought that Laban should have been willing to have bestowed a daughter upon him, nay but he serves for a Wife, and when he had served him, yet he was deceived with a Leah, which was a very great injury to Jacob, Laban urged her upon him; and it's a very great part of roughness, and rigidness, and cruelty in Guardians, or Parents, or any that have the Government 2of others, to force Wives upon them for their own private advantage, to force Wives upon their Children or Kindred, those matches seldom come to good; though God turned this to good, yet I say they do seldom come to good, these forced matches, it's that which is the undoing of many men and women, young women ⟨p. 391⟩to be so used: but Jacob saw no remedy, Fulfil her week, 3that is, the week of the Festivity of her Marriage, that is, confirm this match first; he would have had that Wife that he had served for, nay saith Laban, confirm this 4