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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.
Further, Sixthly, God earnestly desires that they 1would but consider of things, in Deut. 32. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end. Now when you have to deal with them that are humorous, if you by the strength of reason have power over your own passion you would be ready to express your selves thus, Oh that I could but find 2such a man in a way of reason, that he were but wise, that he would but weigh things! thus God saith concerning his people, Oh that they were wise and considered, and understood things!
Further, Sixtly, God earnestly desires that they 1would but consider of things, in Deut. 32. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end. Now when you have to deal with them that are humorous, if you by the strength of reason have power over your own passion you would be ready to express your selves thus, Oh that I could but find 2such a man in a way of reason, that he were but wise, that he would but weigh things! thus God saith concerning his people, Oh that they were wise and considered, and understood things!
- 16. Would have us consider. Deut. 32. 29.
- 2Simile.