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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 7: VER. 7.
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.
I answer: He is so high, as he cannot be more high 1than Himself, God cannot be more excellent than he is ⟨p. 130⟩in Himself, God cannot make Himself better than He is, nor more glorious in Himself than He is: Therefore no creature can make him more than he is: all that all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth can do for God, can ad nothing to him: In Nehem. 9. 5. He is exalted (saith the text) above all blessing and praise.
- 1Answ.
Yet then God accounts Himself to be exalted.
First, When he is known and acknowledged for the 1High, Supreme, First being of all things, when we fear Him as a God, when we humble our selves before him as before a God, when we are sensible of the infinite distance there is between him and us, when we are willing to lay down what we are, or have, or can do for the furtherance of his praise, when his Will is made the Rule of all our ways, and especially of his Worship, when we make him the last end of all, when 'tis the great care of our souls, and work of our lives to do what possibly we can that he might be magnified & lifted up in the world, and when we account the least sin a greater evil than can be recompensed by all the good that Heaven and Earth can afford unto us; and now God accounts Himself exalted by us. And this is the Work that all of us have to do; to give up our selves to the exalting of the Name of this blessed