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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
First this, Men would fain put off from themselves to God 1what evil is upon them. Men naturally are loth to charge themselves with the evil that comes upon them, It's their ill-hap, their ill-fortune, their ill-lock; or they could not help […] they did what they could, and so think to […]ll to God; 'tis for want of means, for want ⟨p. 511⟩of this or that thing that God did deny to them, it's because God put them into such and such a condition, but never come to charge themselves: but the Prophet speaks here in a compassionate way, Oh Israel (saith he) never stand charging it upon God, thou hast destroyed thy self.
First this, Men would fain put off from themselves to God 1what evil is upon them. Men naturally are loth to charge themselves with the evil that coms upon them, It's their ill-hap, their ill-fortune, their ill-lock; or they could not help 〈…〉 they did what they could, and so think to 〈…〉ll to God; 'tis for want of means, for want ⟨p. 511⟩of this or that thing that God did deny to them, it's because God put them into such and such a condition, but never come to charge themselves: but the Propet speaks here in a compassionat way, Oh Israel (saith he) never stand charging it upon God, thou hast destroyed thy self.
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Secondly, God knows how to turn all the evil upon our 1selves, God knows how to right himself; Though we may think to lessen our evil by putting it upon God, God will turn it all upon our own heads, and make it out to all the world that we were the cause of all the evils that were upon us, both temporal evils, and all the evil that shall come upon those that shall perish eternally, it will be