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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.
These bonds of Love that here we have in the Text the Devil seeks to break, the great design of the Devil it is, to make men to have hard thoughts of God, & his ways, 1and to make them believe that God hates them, and that though they have some good things from God for the present, yet that the heart of God is not towards them, and so labours to make a separation between the soul and God. And so the great design of the Devil is to break the bonds of Love between Christian and Christian: It was a fearful judgment that we read of in Zach. 11. 14. when 2the staff that was called Bonds was broken, even the Brotherhood between Judah and Israel, he threatens it as a Judgment; I'll break the bonds of brotherhood. And then ⟨p. 72⟩you find that the staff of Beauty was broken when the staff of bonds was broken.
These bonds of Love that here we have in the Text the Devil seeks to break, the great design of the Devil it is, to make men to have hard thoughts of God, & his waies, 1and to make them beleeve that God hates them, and that though they have some good things from God for the present, yet that the heart of God is not towards them, and so labors to make a separation between the soul and God. And so the great design of the Devil is to break the bonds of Love between Christian and Chistian: It was a fearful judgment that we reade of in Zach. 11. 14. when 2the staff that was called Bonds was broken, even the Brotherhood between Judah and Israel, he threatens it as a Judgment; I'le break the bonds of brotherhood. And then ⟨p. 72⟩you find that the staff of Beauty was broken when the staff of bonds was broken.