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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.
Not to speak now of the Love of God to you as you are Creatures, nor as you are Men; But a little to speak of the Love of God to you as you are Saints. I shall show you very briefly what strong Cords of Love God hath cast upon you, to gain your hearts to himself to love 1him.
Not to speak now of the Love of God to you as you are Creatures, nor as you are Men; But a little to speak of the Love of God to you as you are Saints. I shall shew you very briefly what strong Cords of Love God hath cast upon you, to gain your hearts to himself to love 1him.
- 1The cords of Gods love to his people, 1 Eternal.
As first, Gods Love to you (if you be Saints) it is eternal Love, before ever you were born the bowels of God yearned towards you, (as I may so speak with holy reverence.) ⟨p. 79⟩God was twisting these bonds of love from all eternity that he might gain your hearts, God was thinking that in such a time there shall be such and such men and women that shall live upon the earth; I'll make 1preparation by such bonds now as shall unite and fasten them close to my self when ever it comes to be revealed to them. It was love from eternity, Oh! the Transactions that were between the Father and the Son from all eternity for to manifest love to your souls! the great Counsels (I say) that were transacted between the Father and the Son before the world was, were about these Bonds of Love to you.
As first, Gods Love to you (if you be Saints) it is eternal Love, before ever you were born the bowels of God yerned towards you, (as I may so speak with holy reverence.)