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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.
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Fourthly, God hath so loved you, as he gave his Son for you. 1So God loved us. Sometimes it hath been in the thoughts of men whether there might not he more worlds than this world. Certainly God in his infinite power he might make a thousand worlds more glorious than this, such worlds, as the meanest Creature in those worlds might be as high in excellency above the Sun, as the Sun is high above a piece of earth. But now this we may know, let there be never such excellent Creatures made, they cannot have a greater fruit of love than mankind hath from God; Oh! this is the love of God to mankind, this calls aloud to the children of men to love God, here's a fruit of love beyond that which is to Angels; for the Lord 2took not upon him the Nature of Angels, but the Nature of man.
Fourthly, God hath so loved you, as he gave his Son for you. 1So God loved us. Sometimes it hath been in the thoughts of men whether there might not he more worlds than this world. Certainly God in his infinit power he might make a thousand worlds more glorious than this, such worlds, as the meanest Creature in those worlds might be as high in excellencie above the Sun, as the Sun is high above a piece of earth. But now this we may know, let there be never such excellent Creatures made, they cannot have a greater fruit of love than mankind hath from God; Oh! this is the love of God to mankind, this cals aloud to the children of men to love God, here's a fruit of love beyond that which is to Angels; for the Lord 2took not upon him the Nature of Angels, but the Nature of man.
- 14 He gave his Son for them
- 2Which he did not for Angels.