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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.
It is a very notable phrase, Here, by [Repentings] I take is meant those thoughts of God by which he came to 1do such things as men do in their repentings.
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My repentings together] That is, All the thoughts that I could (as it were) possibly muster up, that could be mustered up together for to turn my heart from the ways of Truth to the ways of Mercy, they are all come up together to me (saith God) and being all joined together, they make a fire, and have set my heart on fire; As a company of brands being laid together make a great flame; so all those thoughts that possibly may be any means to work my heart to good to this people, they are all presented together, and being come and joined all together in one, they set my heart even of a flame, and mightily are stirring in my heart.
My repentings together] That is, All the thoughts that I could (as it were) possibly muster up, that could be mustered up together for to turn my heart from the waies of Truth to the waies of Mercy, they are all come up together to me (saith God) and being all joyned together, they make a fire, and have set my heart on fire; As a company of brands being laid together make a great flame; so all those thoughts that possibly may be any means to work my heart to good to this people, they are all presented together, and being come and joyned all together in one, they set my heart even of a flame, and mightily are stirring in my heart.
Oh! this is the goodness of God to his people, to have all things that any way may be a motive to do good to his people, to come up all together before God, all in one, and when they come in one there to make a fire in the very bosom of God, all the reasonings as it were of my heart being joined together for them have kindled a fire, so that I cannot hold, but I must needs vent my self thus, How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?