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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 7: VER. 7.
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VER. 7.
Therefore I will be unto them as a Lyon; as a Leopard, by the way will I observe them.
There's most dreadful expressions that here follows: God is exceedingly provoked with the exaltation of mens hearts, and their forgetfulness of him in time of their prosperity.
THere's most dreadful expressions that here follows: God is exceedingly provok'd with the exaltation of mens hearts, and their forgetfulness of him in time of their prosperitie.
Is this the same God that spake so of Ephraim heretofore? Is Ephraim my dear Son? Ephraim my pleasant Child. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? my bowels are turned within me; ever since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him, and my bowels are troubled within me; Is this the Lord that now will be a Lyon, a Leopard, a Bear, a tearing Lyon, a wild beast unto Ephraim? What, is this the God that heretofore carried them as Eagles do their young upon their wings, and nourished them as the Eagle nourisheth her young ones? Is this the God that was as a Hen to the Chicken, that was as a gracious Father unto them, to whom this people were as the dearly beloved of Gods Soul, and now God a Lyon, a Leopard, a Bear, a wild Beast to come and tear them? Is this the merciful God? is this that God that is love and mercy it self thus to appear? Oh my Brethren,