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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 4: VER. 4.
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It's very evil to sin against great works of mercy, wherein 1the hand of God hath appeared plainly. When we do any thing for another wherein we think we might gain him to our selves for ever, and he yet—this is very grievous.
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2. It is spoken by way of encouragement. Yet I continue 1to be the Lord thy God, I am ready to show thee the like mercy still. This is to break their hearts, and to provoke them to come in to the Lord. He speaks to an Apostate people; as if he should say; Were you yet what you sometimes seemed to be, Oh how gracious should I be to you! I am yet what ever I seemed to be to you, why are you so perverse and untoward towards me? Jer. 2. 2. I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a Land that was not sown
2. It is spoken by way of encouragement. Yet I continue 1to be the Lord thy God, I am ready to shew thee the like mercy still. This is to break their hearts, and to provoke them to come in to the Lord. He speaks to an Apostate people; as if he should say; Were you yet what you sometimes seemed to be, Oh how gracious should I be to you! I am yet what ever I seemed to be to you, why are you so perverse and untoward towards me? Jer. 2. 2. I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a Land that was not sowen