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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.
Again, Loved thee, surely his Love hath been great, he 1hath put loveliness upon thee, he hath put upon thee his own Nature. If one can say any thing greater than hath been said, this one would think should be very high and great, tor God so love us as to put his own Nature into us, to make us partaker of the Divine Nature, so to love us, as to put his own Life into us, to enable us to live the very same life that himself doth live, so to love us as to put his own Image upon us, Oh! this is the Love of God to his Saints.
- 18 Puts loveliness upon them.
Again, He loves thee with the very same Love wherewith he 1loves Jesus Christ himself; In John 17. about the latter end, That thou mayest love them with the same Love wherewith thou hast loved me, saith Christ to the Father. Oh! to have the same Love that the Father loves Christ withal, Is not this a strong Bond to bind thy heart to God? If God had loved thee only so, as to give thee an estate and honours here in this world, this is no other love but that ⟨p. 83⟩the Reprobate may have, and will this Love satisfy thee? Oh! the difference between the Love of God to his Saints, and the Love of God to other men! he loves the great ones of the world that are wicked with no other love, but with the love that he loves a Reprobate; but he loves the Saints with the same Love wherewith he loves his Son, and this Love will bring thee one day, to be one with the Father and the Son, and is not here a strong Bond of Love to gain thy hea•t to Himself?
Again, He loves thee with the very same Love wherewith he