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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 11 › Verse 3: VER. 3.
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. 3.
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their Arms: But they knew not that I healed them.
Here we have the third degree of Gods goodness towards Ephraim, the fruit of his love, he called them out of Egypt, and he called upon them by his Prophets, and he taught them to go.
HEre we have the third degree of Gods goodness towards Ephraim, the fruit of his love, he call'd them out of Egypt, and he call'd upon them by his Prophets, and he taught them to go.
God here compares himself to a Nurse, or to a tender 1Mother, or loving Father, that carries along the child, and guides the hand of it, and the feet of it; and as they ⟨p. 28⟩are leading the children if there be any rugged foul way, the Nurse or the Parent takes them up in their Arms, such was my dealings towards Ephraim said God. In Psal 77. 20. God there is said to lead them by the hand of Moses and Aaron, like a flock of Sheep. But here he is said to