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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
For the Answer: That which before was said, will 1give sufficient answer to it, How shall I make thee as Admah, and Zeboim? that is, though God did suffer them to be carried away captive, and their enemies prevailed against them, yet he did not make them as Admah and Zeboim though: There was not the fierceness of Gods anger, the Burning of the anger of God, out against them. And the Lord had even in their carrying into Captivity, yet he had respect to his Elect Ones, and hath to this very day an intention to do them good afterwards: And so we shall find in the next verse, that there is a promise of the returning from their Captivity, and therefore though they were for a long time to continue in Captivity, yet still God did not execute the fierceness of his anger.
For the Answer: That which before was said, will 1give sufficient answer to it, How shall I make thee as Admah, and Zeboim? that is, though God did suffer them to be carried away captive, and their enemies prevail'd against them, yet he did not make them as Admah and Zeboim though: There was not the fierceness of Gods anger, the Burning of the anger of God, out against them. And the Lord had even in their carrying into Captivity, yet he had respect to his Elect Ones, and hath to this very day an intention to do them good afterwards: And so we shall find in the next verse, that there is a promise of the returning from their Captivity, and therefore though they were for a long time to continue in Captivity, yet still God did not execute the fierceness of his anger.
- 1Answ.
Sin indeed stirs up anger and fierce anger in God. The Septuagint translate the words thus, I will not do according to the anger of my wrath, that is, in extremity, I 1will not do thus with you, there were mighty stirrings in Gods heart, pleadings of Justice, and pleadings of Mercy, but Gods mercy overcomes, gets the day, as it were: Mercy triumphs over Justice.