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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.
My Repentings are kindled. My bowels yearn within me; so that expression you have in Gen. 43. 30. Josephs bowels did yearn within him. And 1 Kings, 9. 26. The mother of the child when she saw it would be cut pieces, her bowels yearned; the word yearned there, is the same here with kindled, her bowels kindled within her, she found a heat in her bowels. They are kindled [together.]
My Repentings are kindled. My bowels yern within me; so that expression you have in Gen. 43. 30. Josephs bowels did yern within him. And 1 Kings, 9. 26. The mother of the child when she saw it would be cut pieces, her bowels yerned; the word yerned there, is the same here with kindled, her bowels kindled within her, she found a heat in her bowels. They are kindled [together.]
Whatsoever might cause any Repentings, they all come together, they lie glowing at the heart. The Notes 1are these Three,
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First, Here's mighty encouragement for prayer; when we 1present arguments to God for mercy, to think, that those arguments we present, and all other that possibly may be presented they lie glowing at Gods heart, they lie glowing warm at the heart of God; they are not only before God, but there they lie as a company of sticks that are gotten together and so glow and are ready to flame out; so all considerations that any way may serve to do good unto the Saints, they do lie glowing at the heart of God altogether. It may be sometimes we come in prayer, alas we are straitened in our own bowels, perhaps we cannot express our selves, it may be but in one or two particulars we are able to express, and that which comes out of our hearts comes very cold; but when we are