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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.
Now the Lord was pleased to turn this to a great deal of good, though it was hard service and bondage, yet these two Wives that Jacob served so long for, they were ⟨p. 392⟩made the two greatest instruments of good that ever had been in the Church before, or ever since, but only the Virgin that brought forth Christ; for by these two was the house of Israel built up, Twelve Tribes came of them, and those that they gave unto Jacob; but the holy Ghost reckons the building up by these two, and the blessing that was wont to be upon a married condition, it was taken from these two, in a kind of proverbial way; in Ruth, 4. 11. the Elders said to Boaz, The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house, like Rachel, and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: so that this was the common blessing in a married condition, the Lord make this woman like Rachel, and like Leah that built the house of Israel.
Why like these two, rather than Sarah?1
- 1Quest. Answ.
It is from hence, Because they built up the house of Israel, and all that came from them were of the Church, Oh it is a great blessing in a married condition to build 1up the house of God, that's the blessing in a married condition; though thou shouldest serve hardly for a Wife, yet if God makes thy marriage so blessed to thee, as thou comest to build up the Church of God by thy marriage, that's a blessed marriage; and those that are married, in their prayers, should pray to God for such a blessing, and their friends should pray to God for such a blessing, Oh