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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.
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Fourthly, If ever God hath been honoured in such a Kingdom 1by his Saints, either by their doing or suffering, the Lord regards all this when he is about to draw out the Sword of judgment. It's true thinks God, there are but few that honour me now, but there are many of my Servants that have done much, and suffered much, how many have I that have stood out to witness for me, and my truth? Certainly my Brethren, the Lord in saving any Kingdom when the Kingdom is in danger, if it be a place that he hath been honoured in, and that his people have suffered much there for his Names sake, then he remembers it; and there is not a louder argument next to the blood of Jesus Christ, in the ears of God to save a place from ruin, than the blood of his people that have been shed for him; and therefore such a place is beholding to all that have suffered for God.
Fourthly, If ever God hath been honored in such a Kingdom 1by his Saints, either by their doing or suffering, the Lord regards all this when he is about to draw out the Sword of judgment. It's true thinks God, there are but few that honor me now, but there are many of my Servants that have done much, and suffered much, how many have I that have stood out to witness for me, and my truth? Certainly my Brethren, the Lord in saving any Kingdom when the Kingdom is in danger, if it be a place that he hath been honored in, and that his people have suffered much there for his Names sake, then he remembers it; and there is not a louder argument next to the blood of Jesus Christ, in the ears of God to save a place from ruin, than the blood of his people that have been shed for him; and therefore such a place is beholding to all that have suffered for God.
- 14 Former service to God.
Fifthly, He accounts what number of his Saints are there: 1