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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.
First, To show to you, How a man may know that what God doth give him, it is in anger and not in love.
First, To shew to you, How a man may know that what God doth give him, it is in anger and not in love.
And then Secondly, Some COROLLARIES to be drawn from it; but very briefly in both.
And then Secondly, Some CORRALARIES to be drawn from it; but very briefly in both.
For the First then, How we may come to know a thing to be given by God in anger rather than in love. It is a very 1hard thing to convince men, if they have their desires satisfied that it is rather from anger than love; Men are so well pleased with the satisfying of their desires that they can very hardly be convinced but that God intends good to them in it, and therefore you shall find in 1 Sam. 12. 17. that God was fain to do a great and wonderful work of his to convince this people that, that which he gave them there (Saul) it was in anger rather than in love, Is it not Wheat Harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder, and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a King. Samuel had before in Chap. 8. told them of their sin in asking a King, ⟨p. 540⟩but they would not be convinced, still they must have a King. Now saith Samuel, It is Wheat Harvest, and whereas the people of the Jews were never wont to have rain in Harvest time, it was a strange and wonderful thing for them to have rain then: But though it be Harvest-time, yet it shall rain and thunder, and all to the end that you may be convinced of your great wickedness in asking you a King. They had not only had their desires granted before this time, but as they thought had some confirmation