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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 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.
Where? Asked them, Where's all your Bravery, and Pride, and Rage? I say, this confounding [Where] will be asked to every wicked and ungodly man: What will they be able to say then? In Judg. 9. 28. we read of one Gaal the son of Ebbed, who said, Who is Abimelech? but in vers. 38. when Abimelech came with strength against him, Zebal said to him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidest, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? When men are in their pride & bravery, then they scorn at God and men, they little regard any thing that is said to them; but when God brings them down low, then where is that mouth of thine that did so boast and speak so proudly, as heretofore it did?
Where? Asked them, Where's all your Bravery, and Pride, and Rage? I say, this confounding [Where] will be asked to every wicked and ungodly man: What will they be able to say then? In Judg. 9. 28. we reade of one Gaal the son of Ebed, who said, Who is Abimelech? but in vers. 38. when Abimelech came with strength against him, Zebal said to him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidest, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? When men are in their pride & bravery, then they scorn at God and men, they little regard any thing that is said to them; but when God brings them down low, then wheretis that mouth of thine that did so boast and speak so proudly, as heretofore it did?
My brethren, let us learn from hence therefore, To seek 1after, and rest upon those things which we may be able always to give an account of where they are, if it should be asked us; the Saints, if it should be asked them, Where is their God? they can give an account, It's the God of Heaven that we have trusted in, it's the God that is in the highest Heavens, and in the hearts of the Saints, we can tell where our God is: It is just with God that wicked men should be insulted over, because they insult ⟨p. 528⟩