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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 11 › Verse 3: VER. 3.
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.
Again further, I taught Ephraim to go.
Gods Ministers and all of us should labour to follow God in 1this way of his, that is, To have a tender care of others; we should be like our Father: God takes a delight in teaching weak opes how to go, and in guiding of them in their way. Truly we that profess our selves to be Gods ⟨p. 35⟩children, we should imitate our Father, and especially Gods Ministers, they should take a delight to help weak ones on in their way, and to carry weak ones in their very arms; that which God is said here to do, Moses in another Scripture is said to do, as in Numb. 11. 12. Have 2I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, carry them in thy bosom, (as a Nursing Father beareth a sucking child) unto the Land which thou swearest unto their Fathers? It seems Moses, though he thought it to be very hard to bear so many people in his arms (as it were) yet God gave that Commission to him, and he did it according as he was able, he did carry the people as a Nurse, or a Father or Mother carrieth the sucking child in their bosom.
Gods Ministers and all of us should labor to follow God in 1this way of his, that is, To have a tender care of others; we should be like our Father: God takes a delight in teaching weak opes how to go, and in guiding of them in their way. Truly we that profess our selves to be Gods ⟨p. 35⟩children, we should imitate our Father, and especially Gods Ministers, they should take a delight to help weak ones on in their way, and to carry weak ones in their very arms; that which God is said here to do, Moses in another Scripture is said to do, as in