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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.
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.
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 shewed 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.
- 1The text one of the most remarkable in Scripture.
That's the Note from it, God will not cast off his children 1though they get hurt; yea, though they get hurt by their own sin, yet the Lord is so gracious as to heal them. You ⟨p. 38⟩have a notable Scripture for this, in