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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.
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. When God heals us, he expects that we should take notice of his work, that we should acknowledge him. But mark what follows.
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce. When God heals us, he expects that we should take notice of his work, that we should acknowledg him. But mark what follows.
But they knew not that I healed them. I healed them saith God, but they knew not that I healed them.
My Brethren, that's the Note from it, God doth us 1much good that we know not of: I say, God doth us much ⟨p. 40⟩good that we know not of; not only in preventing mercies in a day that we know not of, but in healing mercies, we attribute our healing to this and the other cause; but it is God that comes in in the use of means, sometimes comes in beyond means; though means oftentimes hath been used and no good hath been done by them, at last God by a secret and invisible blessing he comes and heals us; we must not envy at the honour that is due to Instruments; But certainly by the healing that we have had this last Summer, we have cause to look beyond all men and means; though God hath used means, yet it is God that hath healed us, and they desire that we should attribute all the Glory to God, our healing hath been such that except we even maliciously shut our eyes we cannot but know and acknowledge that God hath healed us in great measure; Oh! let not us by our pride and stoutness, our oppression, our foolishness make it appear that we do not acknowledge that God hath healed us, God 2