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

[28], 570 [i.e. 486], [16] p. · 186k words · Wing B6071 · ESTC R26576

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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 4: VER. 4.

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:1274p. 447

Therefore for those that are not grounded (And who is so grounded if it be against the precept of God?) not to go to see it.

:1275p. 447–448

Again, Nothing should be known or acknowledged to have ¹any good in it, but with an infinite distance between it and God, for so the words also imply, Thou shalt know no God but me, i. e. Nothing but with infinite difference from me, as much as between God and the Creature, There is none like to thee, saith the Psalmist (Psal. 89. 6. 8. and other places) there is an infinite distance between God and every Creature. We may know Creatures as ⟨p. 448⟩Creatures, but nothing as God, but God.

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:1276p. 448

We should know God and acknowledge God when we are in misery and straits. So the Church, Isa. 45. 15. Verily thou art a God that hidest thy self, O God of Israel, the Saviour. Many in time of prosperity will know God, and acknowledge him; but when troubles come, they change their thoughts. —There is no Saviour besides me.¹

We should know God and acknowledg God when we are in misery and straits. So the Church, Isa. 45. 15

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