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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.
So wert not thou of such a Family? and yet thou seest how God hath cast off a great part of that Family, and yet hath he loved thee? Wert not thou such a ones brother, such a ones sister that remained wicked and ungodly, and it may be died so? and yet God hath loved thee, he hath past by so many great ones in the world, and so many of thy kindred, and rather pitched his Love upon thee. It's choice Love, and therefore this might gain thee to himself.
So wert not thou of such a Familie? and yet thou seest how God hath cast off a great part of that Familie, and yet hath he loved thee? Wert not thou such a ones brother, such a ones sister that remained wicked and ungodly, and it may be died so? and yet God hath loved thee, he hath past by so many great ones in the world, and so many of thy kindred, and rather pitcht his Love upon thee. It's choise Love, and therefore this might gain thee to himself.
Thirdly, It is free Love, the Love of God is free; so you 1have it in Hos 14. 4. I will love them freely: and in Deut. 7. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people: for you were the fewest of all people. God there would manifest his love to his people to gain their hearts to him: saith he, The Lord did not set his love upon you, because you were more: (Why then did God set his love upon us?) in the 8. verse, but because he loved thee. It's a strange arguing: The Lord did not set his love upon you because you were more, but the Lord did set his love upon you, because he loved you; he could go no higher. There can be no other ⟨p. 80⟩reason why the Lord should love you, but because he did love you. We use to say, it's a woman's reason to say, I will do such a thing, because I will do it. Now if any of you would have a reason why God loved you: why thus, He loved me, because he loved me. The Lord did not set his love upon you for this reason; but he did set his love upon you, because he loved you. So, it is a free love. Oh! let the freeness of it be another Ingredient, so as to bind your hearts unto him.