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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.
I have drawn them with the Bonds of Love; that is thus; I have used them in a loving way; If love would have 1gained them, if love would have overcome them, if love would have bound them to me they have wanted no love saith God, whereas they had deserved the bonus of iron to be upon them; instead of those iron bonds that their sins deserved, they have had the bonds of love.
- 1The Text paraphrased.
If you ask me what were those Bonds of Love 1that God drew this people of Israel unto Himself by?
- 1The bands of love to Israel.
The first was this, God did wonderfully separate this 1people from all the Nations in the world unto Himself, to be a people unto himself, and that out of love, and this was a great fruit of love, and a strong Wreath this was, had there been nothing else, That God should set his heart upon this people above all other people in the earth to be his people, in Exod. 33. 16. Wherein (saith 2Moses) shall it be known that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight, if thou goest not with us? for thereby (saith he) shall ne be separated from all Nations of the Earth: it is in your books, only, shall be separated, but the Hebrew word signifies