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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 4: VERS. 4.
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.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bonds of love.
Here's a fourth or fifth expression of Gods love,; for there was two in the former Verse, Taught them to go, and healed them. Now here's the fifth, I drew them with cords of a man, with bonds of love. God still aggravates his mercy that they might see their sin. As there's no such way to be kindly humbled for sin, as to see it against much mercy. I drew them with cords of a man.
Some would carry this as if it were a proper name, 1with the cords of Adam, for so the word is, for the word Adam, signifies a man of red earth.
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But it's rather to be taken appellatively, with the cords of a man, that is, I did not deal with them like beasts, 1