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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.
In the reading of this Scripture, I find a very strange Expression of one Commenting upon it, that one would think had some knowledge of the freeness of Gods Grace and Goodness, and yet a Jesuit. [In me is thy help] Hence it follows (saith he) That Predestination, Vocation, and Grace, do not come from the foresight of the Merits of those that are Predestinated, but from Gods Predestinating, Calling, Preventing with his Grace: These things are the help of God: even from the mouth of a Jesuit we have this, acknowledging sometimes in their Writings, and when they are serious, that neither Predestination, nor Vocation, nor Grace comes from any foresight of what man would do, ⟨p. 519⟩but only from Gods Predestinating, Calling, Preventing with his Grace, and this is the help of God, all good it is in God, both for the present, and our eternal good.
In the reading of this Scripture, I find a very strange Expression of one Commenting upon it, that one would think had some knowledg of the freeness of Gods Grace and Goodness, and yet a Jesuit. [In me is thy help] Hence it follows (saith he) That Predestination, Vocation, and Grace, do not come from the foresight of the Merits of those that are Predestinated, but from Gods Predestinating, Calling, Preventing with his Grace: These things are the help of God: even from the mouth of a Jesuit we have this, acknowledging sometimes in their Writings, and when they are serious, that neither Predestination, nor Vocation, nor Grace comes from any forefight of what man would do, ⟨p. 519⟩but only from Gods Predistinating, Calling, Preventing with his Grace, and this is the help of God, all good it is in God, both for the present, and our eternal good.
It was a speech of Augustin, God doth many good things 1in a man that a man doth not himself, but there are other things that God works in man; but (saith he) Though he works them […] him, and man doth them, yet it is God that doth them. This point we must not speak at large to, but pace it presently, for we met with that before in the Prophecy, where it was said, God was the only Saviour. In Me is thy help.