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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.
How shall I do it, saith God? We little think what reasonings there are between Mercy and Justice about our lives, about our souls many times, could we but hear what reasonings there are in Heaven between Mercy and Justice about our lives, Oh! it would go to our hearts: The great salvation that comes by Christ, it was not determined without many reasonings between Mercy and ⟨p. 144⟩Justice, there was presented to God whatsoever Justice could say, and what ever mercy could say; What (saith God) must my son be under my wrath for the satisfying of Justice, and be made a Curse? yet this must be, Justice requires satisfaction, How can it be done without the Son of God being made a Curse for mans sin? these kind of reasonings there are in the heart of God for saving of mans soul; in 1 Sam. 16. 8. we read of Abishai, and 1Davids reasoning the case about Sauls life; saith Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand 2this day: now therefore let me smite him, &c. No, saith David, do not smite him, do not destroy him, and thus they reasoned one with another; Saul was in a very ill case when there was that reasoning about his life; such a case are we in many times, the Justice and Mercy of God doth reason about our lives, and souls, Oh! how do we depend upon God for our lives and souls? and if we be saved, we are saved through many reasonings.
How shall I do it, saith God? We little think what reasonings there are between Mercy and Justice about our lives, about our souls many times, could we but hear what reasonings there are in Heaven between Mercy and Justice about our lives, Oh! it would go to our hearts: The great salvation that comes by Christ, it was not determined without many reasonings between Mercy and ⟨p. 144⟩Justice, there was presented to God whatsoever Justice could say, and what ever mercy could say; What (saith God) must my son be under my wrath for the satisfying of Justice, and be made a Curse? yet this must be, Justice requires satisfaction, How can it be done without the Son of God being made a Curse for mans sin? these kind of reasonings there are in the heart of God for saving of mans soul; in