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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.
And then the second was, in a Gentle way.1
- 12. How God deals with his people in a gentle way.
First, Mans Nature, (if it be not degenerated) is of a loving, gentle disposition, 'tis the nature of man to be of a gentle disposition, that's the Note from hence, and I raise it thus: I dealt with them, with the Cords of a man: that is, Gently, which is mans Nature, such a gentleness as fair means will work upon it rather than ridged ways, and hence in ordinary speech, Kindness is called ⟨p. 54⟩humanity, let men have some humanity in them, that is, let them be Courteous; to be courteous, and to show humanity we use for all one; so that the nature of men, though it be fallen, yet if it be not twice dead, and overcome by its corruptions exceedingly. There is an humanity, an ingenuity in the very nature of man naturally.
First, Mans Nature, (if it be not degenerated) is of a loving, gentle disposition, 'tis the nature of man to be of a gentle disposition, that's the Note from hence, and I raise it thus: I dealt with them, with the Cords of a man: that is, Gently, which is mans Nature, such a gentleness as fair means will work upon it rather than ridged waies, and hence in ordinarie speech, Kindness is called ⟨p. 54⟩humanity, let men have some humanity in them, that is, let them be Courteous; to be courteous, and to shew humanity we use for al one; so that the nature of men, though it be fallen, yet if it be not twice dead, and overcome by its corruptions exceedingly. There is an humanity, an ingenuity in the very nature of man naturally.