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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 10: VER. 10.
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.
What ever you do contrive, plot, keep never such a stir, fret, vex, and rage, I will govern you for all that, 1I will be your King, and will do that which beseems me as the great King of Heaven and Earth, I will not be born ⟨p. 523⟩down by you with all your boisterousness, I will govern you, […] will have mine own ends, do what you can, things shall not go as you will, but they shall go as I will have them; you would cast off my Authority, but I will maintain it, I will be your King.
What ever you do contrive, plot, keep never such a stir, fret, vex, and rage, I will govern you for all that, 1I will be your King, and will do that which beseems me as the great King of Heaven and Earth, I will not be born ⟨p. 523⟩down by you with all your boisterousness, I will govern you, 〈…〉 will have mine own ends, do what you can, things shall not go as you will, but they shall go as I will have them; you would cast off my Authoritie, but I wil maintain it, I wil be your King.
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This is a sad condition to a people when God rules over them 1in spite of their heart. And yet God doth do so, many times God rules over people in spite of their hearts, whether they will or no; while they are plotting and striving for themselves this way, and that way, God is bringing about his own ends in their ruin, The Lord is King, be the people never so unquiet, (saith the Psalmist,