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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.
Oh! my brethren, I make no question, but at this day 1all these reasonings have been in the heart of God, concerning England. When we have been at the very pits brink, the Lord hath been often saying even concerning England, How shall I give thee up England? how shall I make thee as Admah? and set thee as Zeboim? mine heart it turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. At that time when Forces were raised (before the Parliament) 2against our Brethren of Scotland, then said the Lord, How shall I give thee up? And then at Edge-hill, and at Brentford, and at Newbury, and Marston-more, and Naseby-fight, we were at every one of them even at the delivering up to the rage of the Enemy; and then comes in these reasonings of the heart of God, Oh! how shall I make them as other people, as Germany, and other people? besides others ⟨p. 149⟩in former times, as in 88. and the Powder-Treason; I say, there have been the workings of the bowels of God towards us, a poor, wretched and sinful people. And let us now learn to acknowledge whence our preservation is; It is not from this man, and the other man, so much as from the reasonings of the heart of God thus for good unto us.
Oh! my brethren, I make no question, but at this day 1all these reasonings have been in the heart of God, concerning England. When we have been at the very pits brink, the Lord hath been often saying even concerning England, How shall I give thee up England? how shall I make thee as Admah? and set thee as Zeboim? mine heart it turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. At that time when Forces were raised (before the Parliament) 2against our Brethren of Scotland, then said the Lord, How shall I give thee up? And then at Edge-hill, and at Brainford, and at Newbery, and Marston-more, and Nazeby-fight, we were at every one of them even at the delivering up to the rage of the Enemy; and then comes in these reasonings of the heart of God, Oh! how shall I make them as other people, as Germany, and other people? besides others