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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 11 › Verse 1: VERS. 1.
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And indeed, God hath an eye to Christ in all things he 1doth, in all his works some way or other they have reference to Jesus Christ; that indeed was one of the greatest works of God for his people carrying them to Egypt and bringing them back again, but God did not intend that so much, but he had an eye to Jesus Christ in it.
- 1Obs. God some way or other aims at Christin all his works;Obs. God som way or other aims at Christin all his works;
And we shall see hereafter (take this Note) that it will be one great part of the Glory of the Saints to see how 1God had an eye to Jesus Christ in all his great works in the world; now we look upon such a work, and such a work to have such an influence upon such a business, but we do not see the reference that it hath to Jesus Christ; hereafter it will be a special part of the glory of the Saints that they shall see how in all the works of God, he had an eye to Jesus Christ; even the work of Creation; God would not have created the world but for his Son, and the fall, and in every thing he had an eye to his Son, for the magnifying the great work of his Son, and such who had a special work of the Spirit of God in those times did understand Gods meaning, though ordinarily they did not: I remember one learned Interpreter hath this expression, to show how they might understand Gods mind by his types, he expresses it thus, As it was with Jonathan when he carried his Bow and Arrows into the field ⟨p. 20⟩2to give David a note whether he should fly away for fear of Saul, or return back again. Now when Jonathan shot his Arrows, he said unto his youth, It is beyond, and on this side. Now the youth knew no more but thus, that he was to look at the Arrow; yea, but saith he, David knew more, that when he said it was beyond him, then he should do thus, and when it was on this side then he should do thus. It is a very good expression in the difference of the types and the letter of things, those who knew but merely the letter they were but like Jonathans youth that did but only according to what Jonathan said, but David he knew the reach of Jonathan, and so was able to make use of it. Oh! it's an excellent thing to be able to understand the reach of God in his Word (as I may so say) and it's a fruit of love. It's a fruit of