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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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The Tenth Observation is this, Oh consider the different 1dealings of the Father with his Son; let our Meditations be raised from this, Doth the bowels of God thus work towards poor sinners, pleading for them when wrath is ready to be executed, then we may here see the great difference between Gods dealings with his Saints, and with his Son. When God comes to deliver his people, these that he had relation to, where he had some of his Saints, and for their sakes he speaks this, he saith, How shall I deliver thee? We do not find that God said so concerning his Son, God did deliver up his Son unto wrath without a How shall I do it, yea, the Heart of God was in it, there's no such expression of reluctancy about this work, but the Scripture saith that it pleased God to bruise him; It pleased him well, it was an act that pleased God to bruise his Son: Indeed it was for glorious ends that he had in it; why so? God might have ends enough for to bring forth his glory in our bruising; but yet notwithstanding any ends that he might bring about, he saith, How shall I do it? God doth not delight to grieve the ⟨p. 154⟩children of men, but God did grieve his Son, he bruised him, and it pleased him to bruise him. You shall find such an expression in Isa. 53. and in Psal. 40. In the volume 2of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will: It was the will of God that Christ should come and suffer what he did; when Ephraim was bemoaning himself, God's bowels were troubled within him, he doth let the rod fall out of his hand, in Jer. 31. 19, 20. When Ephraim 3was bemoaning himself; mark how Gods bowels there works, but the Scripture saith That God did not spare his Son; God would spare Ephraim; Jesus Christ did bemoan himself when he cried out, If it be possible, let this Cup pass from me: and, Oh God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Oh what a bemoaning of himself was this! and yet in Rom 8. 32. God spared not his own Son, he did not spare