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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 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.
But it's rather to be taken appellatively, with the cords of a man, that is, I did not deal with them like beasts, 1which must be drawn or put on with violence, my way was not thus with them, to draw them and to have Iron Chains about them, or strong cords to force them on in their way, no saith he, I dealt with them like men, I drew them on with the Cords of a man. It doth note 2these three things:
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- 2Cords of a man what
First, I dealt with them in a rational way, as men, not as beasts, and sought to draw them in that way, as men.
Secondly, I dealt with them in a gentle way, not with rigour and violence, but as a man, for they were humane, so my ways were ways suitable to their humanity: as the Scripture sometimes speaks of the Rods of men, I'll chastise them with the Rods of men, by which some think is meant, (that is) more gentle, I dealt with them gently.
Secondly, I dealt with them in a gentle way, not with rigor and violence, but as a man, for they were humane, so my waies were waies sutable to their humanity: as the Scripture sometimes speaks of the Rods of men, I'le chastise them with the Rods of men, by which some think is meant, (that is) more gentle, I dealt with them gently.