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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.
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, Psal. 99. 1.) It's not thy fretting and wilfulness that will hinder the course of Gods ordering things in the world, he will be King at last do what thou canst, while thou and thousand thousands of such as thou art shall perish eternally, God will be King; Oh it's infinitely better for thee to fall down before the Lord, and say, Lord, thou shalt be our King, thou art above us, thou hast power over us, thou shalt be our King for ever; It's just with God always to say thus, I will be King: But certainly God hath not made such a distance between man and man that any 2man should say so, that whatsoever injustice he doth, whatsoever misery he brings people into, yet I will be thy King, I will have mine own ends, mine own will. The Bonds between Kings and States certainly is *mutual. But further thus: I will be their King.
This is a sad condition to a people when God rules over them 1in spight of their heart. And yet God doth do so, many times God rules over people in spight 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, Psal. 99. 1.) It's not thy fretting and wilfulness that wil hinder the course of Gods ordering things in the world, he will be King at last do what thou canst, while thou and thousand thousands of such as thou art shall perish eternally, God will be King; Oh it's infinitly better for thee to fal down before the Lord, and say, Lord, thou shalt be our King, thou art above us, thou hast power over us, thou shalt be our King for ever; It's just with God alwaies to say thus, I will be King: But certainly God hath not made such a distance between man and man that any