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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 8: VER. 8.
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 I remember Bernard saith concerning his Brother, when he gave him many good instructions and admonitions, and his brother was a Soldier and did not mind 1them; he puts his fingers to his sides, and saith he, Oh! one day a spear shall make way to this heart for instructions and admonitions to enter. So I may say to such whose hearts have a film upon them, that whatsoever the Preacher saith, it cannot get in, God may justly come and tear the film from off thy heart that keeps out the Instructions of God. And Arias Montanus hath a 2Note further upon this, of sending the Plague upon their hearts, and to leave their estates and comforts to the Assyrians. And the wild Beasts shall tear them.
As I remember Bernard saith concerning his Brother, when he gave him many good instructions and admonitions, and his brother was a Soldier and did not mind 1them; he puts his fingers to his sides, and saith he, Oh! one day a speer shall make way to this heart for instructions and admonitions to enter. So I may say to such whose hearts have a film upon them, that whatsoever the Preacher saith, it cannot get in, God may justly come and tear the film from off thy heart that keeps out the Instructions of God. And Arias Montanus hath a 2Note further upon this, of sending the Plague upon their hearts, and to leave their estates and comforts to the Assyrians. And the wild Beasts shall tear them.
- 1Bernard his speech to his Brother.
- 2Arias Montan.
Why? Did he not name wild beasts enough before? There was the Lyon, and the Leopard, and the Bear, and