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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 13 › Verse 7: VER. 7.
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.
As a Lyon. You have a parallel Scripture in Psal. 50. 22. I held my tongue, and ye thought I was like unto you; but consider this ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and 1there be none to deliver: their hearts were exalted, they forgot God, therefore will I be to them as a Lyon.
As a Lyon. You have a paralel Scripture in Psal. 50. 22. I held my tongue, and ye thought I was like unto you; but consider this ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and 1there be none to deliver: their hearts were exalted, they forgot God, therefore will I be to them as a Lyon.
- 1Why God will be as a Lyon to them that forget him. 1.Why God wil be as a Lyon to them that forget him. 1.
First, A Lyon, is the most terrible creature, Amos, 3. If the Lyon roar, the Beasts tremble. Oh my Brethren, the threats of God should be to us as the roaring of a Lyon, and our hearts should tremble at them.
Secondly, None can take away the prey from a Lyon, ⟨p. 501⟩1