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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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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, 1how dreadful doth sin render God unto his creature! But all this while there's no change in Gods heart, God is the same in himself as before; the change is in the Creature. The Sun that softens the Wax, the same Sun hardens the Clay: the same Infinite blessed Being that doth good to his Creature in one condition, the same Blessed, Infinite, Glorious Being is dreadful to the Creature in another condition. With the froward, he will show himself froward; 2and with the upright, upright. Therefore above all doth God set himself out in a most terrible manner here against those men that were in prosperity whose hearts were exalted and forgot him.
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 yong upon their wings, and nourished them as the Eagle nourisheth her yong ones? Is this the God that was as a Hen to the Chickin, 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 mercie it self thus to appear? Oh my Brethren,