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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.
How many of you have all your mercies prepared for you! When you go abroad about business, now you take 1no care for provision at home in your families, you do but dress you, and go abroad, it may be to a Sermon, or other company, and return home again; you have your Tables spread, and find full Dishes upon your Tables without any care of yours, it's all prepared for you. Oh! consider of the mercies of God towards you in this thing. Whenas many poor people they are fain before they can get bread, to be working hard to prepare food for their families, their wives and children; but the ⟨p. 102⟩Lord laid meat before you. God is to be acknowledged in this.
How many of you have all your mercies prepared for you! When you go abroad about business, now you take 1no care for provision at home in your families, you do but dress you, and go abroad, it may be to a Sermon, or other company, and return home again; you have your Tables spread, and find full Dishes upon your Tables without any care of yours, it's all prepared for you. Oh! consider of the mercies of God towards you in this thing. Whenas many poor people they are fain before they can get bread, to be working hard to prepare food for their families, their wives and children; but the ⟨p. 102⟩Lord laiet meat before you. God is to be acknowledged in this.
- 1Use. To the Rich.
The propriety of the word is, I made it to descend, it came down from Heaven, it was neither too high nor too 1low, but it came just to you, fitted for you; which teaches us thus much: