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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.
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 2that the Lord would make this woman, and my Wife, so to be a builder up of the house of Israel.
- 1What is the blessing in a married condition,
- 2Which they should pray for.
But for further Notes upon this. Jacob fled, and served 1for a Wife. From the scope of the Prophets bringing this in here, we may […] ▪ That such as pride themselves in their Ancestors, should […] back to the mean condition of their Ancestors; some are very high in their conceits, because they have such and such to be their Ancestors, it may be two or three degrees off they were great, but look but half a dozen degrees off and they were but mean Trades-men, 2or Yeomen in the Country; here the Prophet would ⟨p. 293⟩take off their pride from priding in their Ancestors; it is 3