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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.
In the receiving of our food, we must look up to Heaven, we are more beholden to the Heavens than to the Earth for 1our bread; God is to be acknowledged, in that he satisfies the poor with bread, yea, and that he satisfies the rich with bread; you that are the richest of all, you are to see how it comes from Heaven; I made it to descend. I say, our very food we should look from whence it doth descend, it doth descend from Heaven; lift up thine eyes to Heaven when as thou art eating meat, be not as the Swine under the Tree that looks downward to the Acorns, but never upwards towards the branches of the Tree from whence the Acorns fall; but look up to Heaven from whence thy meat and provision did descend. I took off their yoke, and I laid meat unto them.
In the receiving of our food, we must look up to Heaven, we are more beholden to the Heavens than to the Earth for 1our bread; God is to be acknowledged, in that he satisfies the poor with bread, yea, and that he satisfies the rich with bread; you that are the richest of all, you are to see how it comes from Heaven; I made it to descend. I say, our very food we should look from whence it doth descend, it doth descend from Heaven; lift up thine eyes to Heaven when as thou art eating meat, be not as the Swine under the Tree that looks downward to the Achorns, but never upwards towards the branches of the Tree from whence the Achorns fall; but look up to Heaven from whence thy meat and provision did descend. I took off their yoke, and I laid meat unto them.
- 1Obs. 2.
I made their service easy, and I made their provision comfortable. It's quite otherwise with many ridged and cruel 1Governors, they make the service of those that are under them hard, but their provision to be very scant, quite contrary. The service of Gods people is easy, and their