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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.
And this love is very strange too, for though the Lord 1did foresee all thy weakness, and all thy unbeseeming carriages, thy unworthiness, &c. yea, the Lord did not only foresee what thou wouldest be before he did manifest love, but he did foresee how thou wouldst walk unworthy of his love after it was manifested to thee, and though he foresaw all this, yet still his love was not quenched towards thee, but saith the Lord, My love shall break through all this. Many times you set your love upon some, and they prove untoward, and unworthy, and you think with your selves, Could I have but foreseen this untowardness they should never have had my love: but now the Lord did foresee all thy il requitals, and yet it did not ⟨p. 85⟩hinder the love of God towards thee.
And this love is very strange too, for though the Lord 1did forsee all thy weakness, and all thy unbeseeming carriages, thy unworthines, &c. yea, the Lord did not only foresee what thou wouldest be before he did manifest love, but he did forsee how thou wouldst walk unworthy of his love after it was manifested to thee, and though he forsaw all this, yet still his love was not quenched towards thee, but saith the Lord, My love shal break thorow all this. Many times you set your love upon some, and they prove untoward, and unworthy, and you think with your selves, Could I have but foreseen this untowardness they should never have had my love: but now the Lord did foresee al thy il requitals, and yet it did not ⟨p. 85⟩hinder the love of God towards thee.
- 112. Gods love overcomes all our unworthiness (both before & after conversion) which he foresaw.