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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 11: VER. 11.
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THEY were ready to say, Why do you thus blame us for our eager desire? Did not God approve 1of it? God himself was content we should have one, God himself chose our first King, Saul, and he appointed Samuel to anoint him. And if you understand it of the other King Jeroboam, for so Interpreters go, they might say, and Jeroboam also; Did not God foretell by the Prophet, that Jeroboam should have ten Tribes? and did not the Man of God tell us that this was from the Lord? and therefore why should you so much upbraid us about our Kings? it is the mind and will of God that we should have them.
THEY were readie to say, Why do you thus blame us for our eager desire? Did not God approve 1of it? God himself was content we should have one, God himself chose our first King, Saul, and he appointed Samuel to anoint him. And if you understand it of the other King Jeroboam, for so Interpreters go, they might say, and Jeroboam also; Did not God foretel by the Prophet, that Jeroboam should have ten Tribes? and did not the Man of God tell us that this was from the Lord? and therefore why should you so much upbraid us about our Kings? it is the mind and will og God that we should have them.
- 1Cohaerance
The answer of the Prophet is: It's true, God did give you a King, and God did appoint Samuel to anoint him, and God did foretell that Jeroboam should be King over the ten Tribes: Yea, but it was in his anger, he gave you one indeed, but it was in his anger, you were so set upon it, that you would have one, if you will, take him saith God, and take him with all that shall follow after, so that it was (as one speaks) rather from an angry God than from a God that was entreated by them in a 1way of Prayer.