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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.
As if you would imagine any merciful man in the world 1that were put to a straight, would fain have a way for mercy to save a wretched sinner: God takes upon him the person (as it were) of this man, and saith, How shall I do it? God doth (as it were) in this bring Mercy and Justice both together, to plead the Case, both against, and for Ephraim.
As if you would imagin any merciful man in the world 1that were put to a straight, would fain have a way for mercy to save a wretched sinner: God takes upon him the person (as it were) of this man, and saith, How shall I do it? God doth (as it were) in this bring Mercy and Justice both together, to plead the Case, both against, and for Ephraim.
- 1Simile.
Justice comes in and pleads, Lord, their Sins are great and many, their Mercies have been great, their Means 1that they have had hath been exceeding much, thou hast been exceeding much, thou hast been patient a long time towards them, and this hath been abused, their hearts are still hardened, thy Name is blasphemed because of them. These Arguments come up against them. But now there comes up Arguments for them.
- 1The plea of Justice.
I, but than Mercy steps up and pleads, But Lord, art