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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 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.
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.
- 1Obs. 4.
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.
God here compares himself to a Captain that comes 1with his Soldiers unto a Town: I suppose many of you in this place may easily come to understand the meaning of this word, by what they have seen and felt themselves: Soldiers come to a Town, and there they pillage it and away they go, and so the poor people think, Soldiers have been here, and I hope we shall do well enough now, and think all's over: It may be within a month or two after, the same Soldiers come again, and utterly ruin the place, and strip them of all. But now saith God, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, that is, Though I lay my hand upon them, and afflict them, and take away many comforts from them, yet when I have done that, there I'll leave, I will not come back again with a purpose utterly to ruin them; This I might do, I might return upon them with one evil upon another, but I will not do so. From whence note: