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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.
But the main Point of all is this, That according to the relation that a people, a sinful people, or persons have unto God, 1So God finds it a difficult thing to execute wrath upon them.
- 1Obs. 6.
How shall I do it? The wrath of God is many times brought to the birth, and God cannot as it were (to speak after the manner of men) know how to put strength to it to bring it forth. This is the reason that in Scripture we have such sending after sinners, and crying to them, to return, such earnest wishes, Oh! that they would return! and such pleadings with them, They will not come in, and return; This is the reason why we read of the Lord whetting his Sword, and bending his Bow, and preparing his Arrows.
How shall I do it? The wrath of God is many times brought to the birth, and God cannot as it were (to speak after the manner of men) know how to put strength to it to bring it forth. This is the reason that in Scripture we have such sending after sinners, and crying to them, to return, such earnest wishes, Oh! that they would return! and such pleadings with them, They will not come in, and return; This is the reason why we reade of the Lord whetting his Sword, and bending his Bow, and preparing his Arrows.
Why, is not God ready at any time to execute judgment upon a sinner?1
- 1Quest.