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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.
My brethren, never was the bonds of Love more broken among Christians than they are now. We read of bands of Love, but what's become of them? They are broken. They were in former times so twisted (as I told you the word in the Hebrew signifies) love so twisted into so many 1Wreaths as one would have thought they could never have been broken; but whatsoever the matter is, we find they snap asunder. Oh! how justly might God bind us with Iron bonds, seeing that the bonds of Love will not bind us! God hath cut the Cords of divers of our yokes asunder, and hath broken the bonds of the oppressor, and now behold we break the bonds of Love; Oh! unworthy wretches that we are, every one of us looks with a jealous eye one upon another, every one shifting for himself, there are no bonds of love in our hearts; the wicked in Scripture are said to die without bonds, that's Gods patience, that they shall die without bonds; but woe to us, we live without bonds, and that's our sin, and the wrath of God upon us, in Eccles. 3. 8. There is a time to love; when is the time? Certainly if ever there 2were a time to love, then this is a time to love. And there is a time to hate.
My brethren, never was the bonds of Love more broken among Christians than they are now. We reade of bands of Love, but what's become of them? They are broken. They were in former times so twisted (as I told you the word in the Hebrew signifies) love so twisted into so many 1Wreaths as one would have thought they could never have been broken; but whatsoever the matter is, we find they snap asunder. Oh! how justly might God bind us with Iron bonds, seeing that the bonds of Love will not bind us! God hath cut the Cords of divers of our yokes asunder, and hath broken the bonds of the oppressor, and now behold we break the bonds of Love; Oh! unworthy wretches that we are, every one of us looks with a jealous eye one upon another, every one shifting for himself, there are no bonds of love in our hearts; the wicked in Scripture are said to die without bonds, that's Gods patience, that they shall die without bonds; but wo to us, we live without bonds, and that's our sin, and the wrath of God upon us, in