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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.
Secondly, In a gentle way: As if God should say, I have not driven them on with rigour, but I have dealt gently with them like men: indeed if so be that one should be always striking a youth, or servant, or man, you would be ready to say, you are not meddling with a beast, 1or a dog, but with a man; saith God, I remembered I have to deal with a man, and therefore I dealt in a gentle way. There are these six or seven particulars, how God expresses his dealing with them in a gentle way.
Secondly, In a gentle way: As if God should say, I have not driven them on with rigor, but I have dealt gently with them like men: indeed if so be that one should be alwaies striking a youth, or servant, or man, you would be ready to say, you are not medling with a beast, 1or a dog, but with a man; saith God, I remembred I have to deal with a man, and therefore I dealt in a gentle way. There are these six or seven particulars, how God expresses his dealing with them in a gentle way.
- 12. How God deals gently with his people.
As first, I have suited my self to their very dispositions, 1this is now to deal in a gentle way; as a Schoolmaster he looks upon his Scholars not as a company of beasts, but as the children of men, and therefore he considers their dispositions and tempers, and he suits himself with their temper, (if he be a wise Schoolmaster) and will draw them on with such ways and Cords as are suitable 2to humane Nature. So I do saith God.
As first, I have suted my self to their verie dispositions,