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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.
First, This reason is presented, The many prayers of the 1Saints withstand against justice. Justice must break through all the prayers of all the Saints of God that are in such places; and this is not an easy matter; we account it not an easy matter for to break through a mighty Army; God cannot come to a people that he is related to, and is worshipped by, but that he must break through an Army, 2the Army of the prayers of his people; now saith God, How shall I do it? Oh! it is a mighty Army that is between me and them.
First, This reason is presented, The many prayers of the 1Saints withstand against justice. Justice must break through all the prayers of all the Saints of God that are in such places; and this is not an easie matter; we account it not an easie matter for to break through a mighty Army; God cannot come to a people that he is related to, and is worshiped by, but that he must break through an Army, 2the Army of the prayers of his people; now saith God, How shall I do it? Oh! it is a mighty Army that is between me and them.
- 11. Prayers of the Saints.1. Prayrs of the Saints.
- 2Simile.
Yea, Secondly, The Lord looks upon such a place 1with pity, Because of the many children and little ones that there are in such a place, yea, the children of his own people. You know when God was about destroying of Nineveh, he looked upon the many thousands that knew not the difference between the right hand or the left. But when God comes to destroy a Kingdom that doth worship him, he looks upon those many infants, and the little ones, and sees them many of the posterity of his Servants; As they are but littles ones that moves his bowels, they have not been guilty of those sins that their parents have been guilty of, and they are the little ones of mine own precious Servants, many of them, How shall I destroy this place, even for their sakes?