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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.
So long as we are in Gods way, though the way be difficult, yet we have cause to bless God that we are in 1his way, and let not us be troubled at the difficulty of our way when we see God before us, and leading us in our way.
- 1Use.
Thirdly, Though we meet with difficulties in our way, yet God loves to teach his people how to go in their way; and the 1more difficult their way is, the more care hath God of them to teach them how to go. We do not find such an expression of Gods care of them to teach them in any other way but this of theirs, when they went first out of Egypt; because that way was the most difficult, therefore God takes upon him in a special manner to teach them in that way.
Thirdly, Though we meet with difficulties in our way, yet God loves to teach his people how to go in their way; and the 1more difficult their way is, the more care hath God of them to teach them how to go. We do not find such an expression of Gods care of them to teach them in any other way but this of theirs, when they went first out of Egypt; because that way was the most difficult, therfore God takes upon him in a special manner to teach them in that way.
- 1Obs. 3.
Be not discouraged at your difficulties, but when you