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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.
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 1hard things; If yet we be not utterly, not everlastingly cast off, acknowledge Mercy; it is Mercy my Repentings ⟨p. 168⟩kindled: I will not execute fierceness of anger: Why? Because they were not as Admah and Zeboim.
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Learn we all this: This day whatsoever afflictions are upon me; though it may be you are ready to say, Such afflictions are upon me, as upon none; we are ready to think our afflictions to be the greatest of all; yea, but bless God that thou hast not fire from heaven to consume thee and thy family, for this might have been thy portion, this fierceness of Anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim.