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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 8: VER. 8.
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The Lord here takes upon Him (as it were) the person of a loving Father towards a stubborn and rebellious 1child, the child hath gone away from the Father, and hath continued in stout ways, It may be the Father sends after it, it will not come, it will not return, but goes on stubbornly, the Father hath many workings in his heart to cast it off; he shall never be a penny the better for me, let him beg his bread from door to door, he is unnatural to me; yea, but when he is in the midst of these resolutions, and hath these sad thoughts towards the child, yet there comes a turning of his bowels on a sudden, Oh! but how shall I give it up? how shall I disinherit it? how shall I do it? It is my child, though stubborn, why may it not return? why may not yet God work good upon it; It's very evil, but how shall I give it up? I know not how in the world to bring my heart to it. Thus the Lord breaks out here. Here we have in your books four [Hows] How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? I confess in the Hebrew there are but two, but yet for the sense of it the Interpreters put in the other, and they have the sense of four, How? How? How? How shall I do it? there are four Interrogations here, and four Answers. Four Pathetical Interrogations that God asks as it were Himself.2
The Lord here takes upon Him (as it were) the person of a loving Father towards a stubborn and rebellious 1child, the child hath gone away from the Father, and hath continued in slout waies, It may be the Father sends after it, it will not come, it will not return, but goes on stubornly, the Father hath many workings in his heart to cast it off; he shall never be a peny the better for me, let him beg his bread from door to door, he is unnatural to me; yea, but when he is in the midst of these resolutions, and hath these sad thoughts towards the child, yet there comes a turning of his bowels on a sudden, Oh! but how shall I give it up? how shall I disinherit it? how shall I do it? It is my child, though stuborn, why may it not return? why may not yet God work good upon it; It's very evil, but how shall I give it up? I know not how in the world to bring my heart to it. Thus the Lord breaks out here. Here we have in your books four [Hows] How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? I confess in the Hebrew there are but two, but yet for the sense of it the Interpreters put in the other, and they have the sense of four, How? How? How? How shall I do it? there are four Interogations here, and four Answers. Four Pathetical Interogations that God asks as it were Himself.