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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 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.
Yea, And though Gods Ministers meet with those that are 1very froward, yet they must not be discouraged; we are as froward in reference unto God, as any can be in reference unto us, and therefore you must consider you that are Ministers, when you meet with young Professors, and others that are beginning in the ways of godliness, and you find them untoward and peevish many times, do not cast them off because of that; if God should have cast off you because of that, what would have become of you? No, instruct them with meekness, even instruct them with meekness that oppose themselves; though they kick and spurn, yet instruct them with meekness though they oppose themselves, and in 1 Thess. 2. 7. we have a notable 2pattern of a Minister there how he should carry himself in this respect; But we were gentle among you, even as a Nurse cherishes her children. Thus Ministers should be of gentle spirits, and know that God doth put them in place to teach children how to go in their way; and therefore we find it in Tit. 1. 7. that they must not be soon 3angry, Ministers must not be of angry dispositions; you would be loth to put your children to froward Nurses, 4their very milk would some way favour of them, and ⟨p. 36⟩your children may get a great deal of hurt by Nurses that are pettish and froward; it is a special qualification and 5necessarily required in a Nurse, that she be of a gentle and patient disposition: Now Gods Ministers are compared to Nurses, and do not think the comparison too mean, for God himself is compared to a Nurse, when he saith he taught Ephraim how to go.
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