A30575:1304
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 13 › Verse 6: VER. 6.
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.
VER. 6.
According to their Pasture, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
YOU have formerly heard the gracious providence of God towards his people while they were in the wilderness, I knew them in the wilderness, in the Land of great drought. God glories much and mentions often, the care over, and goodness to his people in the wilderness; when they had got out of the wilderness into the Land of Canaan where there were much Pastures, they 1thought themselves to be well, now they could live of themselves, they could provide for themselves, and so they lived to themselves, and in a little time destroyed themselves, the truth is they were in a worse condition then, than when they were in the wilderness, for saith he, According to your Pastures, so you were filled, and then you forgot me, and therefore I'll be as a Lyon to you, and as a Leopard and a Bear.
YOU have formerly heard the gracious providence of God towards his people while they were in the wilderness, I knew them in the wilderness, in the Land of great drought. God glories much and mentions often, the care over, and goodness to his people in the wilderness; when they had got out of the wilderness into the Land of Canaan where there were much Pastures, they