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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.
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Thirdly, Gods mercies do not free his People from all fruits 1of displeasure. [But I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger.] And my brethren, this is not meant merely of the times of the Law; for this anger of God upon them is to this very day? But yet it is not fierceness of anger, like that of Adamah and Zeboim: There are (no question) among them the elect Ones of God at this day, God will not have this called the fierceness of anger.
Thirdly, Gods mercies do not free his People from all fruits 1of displeasure. [But I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger.] And my brethren, this is not meant meerly of the times of the Law; for this anger of God upon them is to this very day? But yet it is not fierceness of anger, like that of Adamah and Zeboim: There are (no question) among them the elect Ones of God at this day, God wil not have this called the fierceness of anger.
- 1Obs. 3.
So, 'tis displeasure, 'tis captivity, long captivity, They are a reproach, and a by-word to the world, and yet not fierceness of anger: Our discontented hearts are ready to call every little affliction, fierceness of anger; Oh! how fierce is God, if we suffer any little! And indeed did we but know what anger our sins deserve, we would learn, not to call every affliction that is upon us, no, nor our greatest afflictions, fierceness of anger.
Fourthly, We should acknowledge mercy, though we suffer 1