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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.
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Thirdly, I aimed at their good as well as mine own, as well 1as my glory; there's many Scriptures that way; you do not do so when you strike beasts, you do not consider of the good of the beast, but at the benefit that you should have, that he may further your work. But now when you come to strike men you must look at their good as well as at your own good; there's no parent must strike the child, but must look at the benefit of the child rather than to satisfy his humour. When you strike merely for your own advantage without aiming at the good of those you strike, you deal not with them like men, but like beasts.
Thirdly, I aim'd at their good as well as mine own, as well 1as my glory; there's many Scriptures that way; you do not do so when you strike beasts, you do not consider of the good of the beast, but at the benefit that you should have, that he may further your work. But now when you come to strike men you must look at their good as well as at your own good; there's no parent must strike the child, but must look at the benefit of the child rather than to satisfie his humor. When you strike meerly for your own advantage without aiming at the good of those you strike, you deal not with them like men, but like beasts.
- 13. Aimed at their good in all.
Fourthly, I did never any thing towards them but so as they 1might have hope still preserved in them of being reconciled to me upon their coming in, though they deserved never so much, and I seemed to come against them the most harshly, yet I never so came against them but there was hope preserved, that at any time of their coming in and repenting I would be reconciled to them; this is to deal with them ⟨p. 49⟩