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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 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.
Many times children, though there be a great care to 1teach them how to go, yet they will venture themselves, and by their venturousness and wantonness they get many a knock and bruise. So it was with this people, indeed my care was towards them, but they would go their own way, and they often bruised themselves. Well, did God therefore reject them and say, It is through your own fault that you have gotten these bruises and maims. No, I healed them saith God. Though he were never so froward, and he got by that many bruises, yet my pity was so great that I healed those very bruises and maims that he got by his wilfulness.
Many times children, though there be a great care to 1teach them how to go, yet they will venture themselves, and by their venturousness and wantoness they get many a knock and bruise. So it was with this people, indeed my care was towards them, but they would go their own way, and they often bruised themselves. Well, did God therefore reject them and say, It is through your own fault that you have gotten these bruises and maims. No, I healed them saith God. Though he were never so froward, and he got by that many bruises, yet my pity was so great that I healed those very bruises and maims that he got by his wilfulness.
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Though in the reading of this we may pass it easily 1by, yet it is as notable a Scripture as most we have in the Book of God. What's the reason our consciences do so misgive us, and that we are so afraid that the Lord will leave us to our selves? when our consciences accuse us of this, Oh! we may thank our selves for it, the Lord showed us another way, but we through our sinfulness, and frowardness would go in our own way, Can we think that the Lord should have care of us in our sores that we got our selves by our wilfulness? yes, (saith God) such was my compassion towards Ephraim, that I taught him how to go, and yet they got bruises, But I healed them afterwards.