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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 13 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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This the Prophet mentions as a means to aggravate his 1sin and misery afterwards, As if the Prophet should say, There was a time that God did subdue the hearts of people under Ephraim, so that Ephraim had a great deal of Authority over those that were under him, When Ephraim spake, there was trembling.
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From whence the Note is this, which Pareus hath upon the place, saith he, The subjection of the hearts of men 1unto those in Authority, it is a work of God, God is to have the glory of it: It is from God that the hearts of multitudes shall be brought under some few so as to fear them, and to receive what they speak with trembling, it is from God. In Josh. 4. 14. On that day the Lord magnified Joshua ⟨p. 418⟩in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him as they feared Moses. Joshua before Moses dyed, was but a servant to Moses, and we do not read that he was so magnified among the People, they did not fear him so much; No, the fear was then upon Moses, because Moses was in place of Authority; but when Moses was taken away, and Joshua was to succeed him in Authority, then the Lord magnified him, the Lord put a lustre upon him, and the Lord caused the People to fear him, as they had feared Moses: It is a work of God to cause People to fear Magistrates. So in Dan. 5. 19. For the Majesty be gave him, (that God gave the King) all People, and Nations, and Languages trembled and feared before him. It's God that puts majesty upon Governors, to make those that are under to fear. It's a very observable Scripture we have in Psal 77. 14. there it's spoken of God, that he did wonders