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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 11: VER. 11.
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.
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.
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 foretel 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 intreated by them in a 1way of Prayer.
- 1Abirato, potius quàm ab exorato Deo.
There are many exceeding useful Observations here, which time will not give leave to go through all, even from the first part. I gave them a King in mine Anger.
Saul and Jeroboam was given in anger, those primarily, as a punishment of their sin: Saul was given as a punishment of their sin in rejecting Samuel, and in their disobedience to Samuel, and the way of Government that they had then. And Jeroboam was given as a punishment of their sin of Idolatry, that was committed in Solomon's time, [as also of their Rebellion and Apostasy] And yet it's said, that God did it.