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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.
And is it so? Neither then should the hope, or encouragement 1of mercy from God hide our sins from us: As the thoughts of Gods mercies to us do not hide our sins from him, so our hope of mercy from God should not hide our sins from our own eyes, but at the same time when we think of the greatest mercy, yet we should look upon our selves as the most wretched, miserable, forlorn Creatures in our selves. It follows. My heart is turned within me, my Repentings are kindled together.
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The word here translated [Turned] it signifies some great stirring, some change into another condition. And 1that expression of God here, My heart is turned, it is not 2only to note, (according as I see several Interpreters go) that God doth change the sentence of his wrath, yet without any change in Gods Nature, for the same God working upon divers objects, works in a diverse way without any change in himself, so that though there were those things that might have produced wrath, and reasoning for it, and (God speaking after the manner of men as it were) inclinations to it, yet upon such considerations it should not be, and though this would be a change in man, yet God is infinitely above us, and we are not able to know his Nature, this is without any change in him.
The word here translated [Turned] it signifies some great stirring, some change into another condition. And 1that expression of God here, My heart is turned, it is not 2only to note, (according as I see several Interpreters go) that God doth change the sentence of his wrath, yet without any change in Gods Nature, for the same God working upon divers objects, works in a diverse way without any change in himself, so that though there were those things that might have produced wrath, and reasoning for it, and (God speaking after the manner of men as it were) inclinations to it, yet upon such considerations it should not be, and though this would be a change in man, yet God is infinitly above us, and we are not able to know his Nature, this is without any change in him.