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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 8: VER. 8.
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 shall I give thee up?
I beseech you observe; God was in the midst of his threatenings of Judgment, & charging of them with their sin: saith he, The Sword shall abide upon their Cities, and consume their branches: because of their own Counsels. And when they were called to the most high God, yet none would exalt him: How! not one would come in! What would follow? One would think, Now let wrath pursue them, let the curse of the Almighty overtake them, one would wonder that it did not; but mark a greater wonder, that after the charging of them for this wickedness, and in the midst ⟨p. 134⟩of Gods threatenings of the most dreadful judgments to consume them by the Sword, How shall I give thee up, Ephraim, &c?
I beseech you observe; God was in the midst of his threatnings of Judgment, & charging of them with their sin: saith he, The Sword shall abide upon their Cities, and consume their branches: because of their own Counsels. And when they were called to the most high God, yet none would exalt him: How! not one would com in! What would follow? One would think, Now let wrath pursue them, let the curse of the Almighty overtake them, one would wonder that it did not; but mark a greater wonder, that after the charging of them for this wickedness, and in the midst ⟨p. 134⟩of Gods threatnings of the most dreadful judgments to consume them by the Sword, How shall I give thee up, Ephraim, &c?
The Lord here takes upon Him (as it were) the person of a loving Father towards a stubborn and rebellious 1