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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 13: VER. 13.
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.
Secondly, God shows here mercy to his people by a Prophet, that notes this, That when God works great things 1for his Church, his way is to work it by very small means, little means God uses when he intends the greatest mercies to his Church. Gods deliverance of his people from Egypt it was a type of the deliverance of his Churches to the end of the world from their bondage and afflictions, and God sends them a Prophet, and he must deliver them. Though God did it, yet God puts it upon the Prophet as the great Instrumental means for their help, God takes ⟨p. 399⟩delight in this, when he doth good to his people, not to make use of such great means, as when he doth work his own ends other ways towards other people; when 2God intends good towards other people he will do it in a more natural way, by natural means; but when he comes to work good for his own, he will do it in a more supernatural way: For mercies are so much the sweeter by how much the more God is in them; so much the 3more as we see the finger of God in a mercy, so much the sweeter it is. And above all things the Lord accounts 4himself glorified in his peoples depending upon him in the want of all means, the Lord accounts this his Glory, that he may be an object of the rest of the souls of his people, that when they are in any straights, in any afflictions, that yet they can look upon God as an object for their rest, and can say, My soul, return unto thy rest.
Secondly, God shews here mercy to his people by a Prophet, that notes this, That when God works great things 1for his Church, his way is to work it by very smal means, little means God uses when he intends the greatest mercies to his Church. Gods deliverance of his people from Egypt it was a type of the deliverance of his Churches to the end of the world from their bondage and afflictions, and God sends them a Prophet, and he must deliver them. Though God did it, yet God puts it upon the Prophet as the great Instrumental means for their help, God takes