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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 11 › Verse 3: VER. 3.
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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 1are in your way, and your conscience tells you that it is not a way that you have chosen to your selves, look up to God for guidance, cry to him; as you find in Psal. 107. 6. They cried to the Lord in their trouble; (and then vers. 7.) 2he led them forth in a right way. Mark how these two are ⟨p. 31⟩joined together: They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he led them forth in a right way. When you are in straights, cry to God in your trouble, the Lord will lead you forth in a right way. When we have been in the greatest straits