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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.
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.
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?
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 joyned 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?
But you will say, Why doth God express himself thus? God might without any more ado pardon, and help, or deliver, why should he express himself in this manner?
But you wil say, Why doth God express himself thus? God might without any more ado pardon, and help, or deliver, why should he express himself in this manner?
It's the Answer of Mr. Calvin here, He doth accommodate 1himself (saith he) to our rudeness; God who disdained not to take mans nature upon him, disdained not to ⟨p. 140⟩act in the person of a man, who being much wronged, is reasoning in himself what to do, his heart is full of pity, his bowels yearn, and he would fain find a way for mercy; and when provocation of execution comes in in his mind, it is as a dagger to his heart. Oh! how shall I do this?