An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
Author: Jeremiah Burroughs

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.]

Jeremiah Burroughs 1599–1646London: 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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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

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I am the Lord thy God.] This should have been a strong ¹argument to obedience. When the will of God is once known (saith Luther) we are no further to dispose of ²Rights, because neither Parents, neither Lords and Masters have this Title, I am the Lord thy God.

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