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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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Oh! that upon the manifestation of God in this way of mercy, we may come to know that God is the Lord, the Lord might have forced us to have known that he was the Lord, by laying more grievous yokes upon us, by bringing us under more dreadful evils than ever yet we were, but the Lord hath rather been pleased to choose a way to make us to know that he is the Lord, by taking our yokes off from us. This God hath done.
Oh! that upon the manifestation of God in this way of mercy, we may come to know that God is the Lord, the Lord might have forced us to have known that he was the Lord, by laying more grievous yokes upon us, by bringing us under more dreadful evils than ever yet we were, but the Lord hath rather been pleased to chuse a way to make us to know that he is the Lord, by taking our yokes off from us. This God hath done.
The Second Observation is from the Scope that the Prophet brings this for, which is, to aggravate their sin so much the more; as if he should say, I have taken off the yoke from your jaws, and yet now you are wanton and kick and spurn with the heel against me. From whence Note;
That to grow wanton, to abuse our ease, when God is pleased 1to deliver us from yokes, is very sinful, a very great evil. What now when we come to have a little liberty more than we had before, to be freed from that yoke and bondage that we were in, and begin to feel our necks freed of those yokes that were before upon them, What! now to begin to frisk, and spurn, and kick, and against God Himself, that hath taken the yoke from off us, Oh! this is very dreadful. What, to abuse our liberty that we have from our bondage, to all manner of licentiousness in horrid and wanton Opinions, in wicked and abominable practises; certainly this is an ill requital of this fruit of Love, in lifting up the yoke from off our jaws. This is a very great evil which we are this day guilty of; if ever there were a people guilty of this evil, of kicking and spurning against God so soon as he hath taken off the