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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.
First, That deliverance from oppression is a great mercy. Oh! 1what ease is there in it! Oh! how doth it cool our necks! In Levit. 26. 13. I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright. There was a time that we had heavy yokes upon us, that made us stoop, we stooped under them, but through Gods mercy these bonds of our yokes are in a good measure broken, that we may go upright, and woe to us, if we go not upright now. In Ezek. 34. 27. They shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken 2the bonds of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. My brethren, If ever God manifested himself to be the Lord towards us, it hath been in breaking the bonds of our yoke, of the yokes that were upon us, and in delivering us from those who served themselves of us; we were under a proud and cruel generation of men, that minded themselves, and cared not what became of the Consciences, of the Estates, Liberties, and Lives of men, so be it that they could have their humours, their lusts served upon us; and what means could we see for the deliverance of our selves from their yoke? But the Lord hath appeared; and then saith the text, They shall know that I am the Lord; If we 3did not know that God was the Lord before, yet now we may know him; and the truth is, such hath been the wonderful works of God towards us in the breaking of our yokes, that it were enough to convince an Atheist me thinks; those of you that have been heretofore troubled with temptations of Atheism, The strange ways of God towards this Nation in freeing of us from those 4yokes that have been upon us, may convince you of a God, may make you say, Surely there is a God in Heaven that ⟨p. 93⟩beholds the ways of the children of men, the Lord is God; Then shall you know that I am the Lord.