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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.
Seventhly, The Lord sees how the adversaries would insult; 1If I should deliver them, they will not honour me, they will blaspheme, they will scorn at their prayers, and fastings, and at all their trusting in God, and at their good cause, and what's become of your good cause, and of your pretending to God, so much as you have done? Now the Lord foresees these blasphemies and insultings of the proud adversaries, how they will triumph, and tread upon his Saints as dirt under their feet.
Seventhly, The Lord sees how the adversaries would insult; 1If I should deliver them, they will not honor me, they will blaspheme, they will scorn at their prayers, and fastings, and at all their trusting in God, and at their good cause, and what's become of your good cause, and of your pretending to God, so much as you have done? Now the Lord foresees these blasphemies and insultings of the proud adversaries, how they will triumph, and tread upon his Saints as dirt under their feet.
- 17 Insulting of the Adversary
Eighthly, There are many of mine elect ones that are to 1come out of their loins, and therefore though I do not preserve the Kingdom for their own sakes, yet for those elect ones that comes out of their loins; If I should deliver them up to the rage of the enemy, then the line of my election would even be cut asunder, and therefore, How can I give them up? I shall wrong my self in this thing, in cutting asunder even the very thread of election in giving them up.
Eighthly, There are many of mine elect ones that are to 1