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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.
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.
now it may be God would have given them a King, or presently after, and so they might have had a holy and gracious King; but they must have him now, and so they had him with the anger of God. You know the story of Rachel, Oh! give me children or else I die. So she had a child and she died; though it was not in Gods anger as an Enemy, yet it was a Fatherly anger. Oh! think but of this, you women that are so desirous of children, or any outward blessing, you that are desirous of altering your condition. How many in altering their Estate, as in Marriage, they must needs alter it, and to this party, and such a one they must needs have, although they beg their bread all their days, and although Parents against it, and though they cannot see evidences of grace. Now saith God, you shall have it, you shall join together, I, and you shall work your own misery by this eagerness ⟨p. 539⟩of your spirit. Oh Brethren, let us learn to be moderate in our desires, and commit our desires and heart to God. I gave them a King in mine anger, and took him away 1in my wrath.
now it may be God would have given them a King, or presently after, and so they might have had a holy and gracious King; but they must have him now, and so they had him with the anger of God. You know the storie of Rachel, Oh! give me children or else I die. So she had a child and she died; though it was not in Gods anger as an Enemie, yet it was a Fatherly anger. Oh! think but of this, you women that are so desirous of children, or any outward blessing, you that are desirous of altering your condition. How manie in altering their Estate, as in Marriage, they must needs alter it, and to this partie, and such a one they must needs have, although they beg their bread all their daies, and although Parents against it, and though they cannot see evidences of grace. Now saith God, you shall have it, you shall joyn together, I, and you shall work your own miserie by this eagerness ⟨p. 539⟩of your spirit. Oh Brethren, let us learn to be moderate in our desires, and commit our desires and heart to God. I gave them a King in mine anger, and took him away 1in my wrath.