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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 I am God (saith he) and not man.1
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Here's an argument that is very full, I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, for I am God, and not a man.
Before God took upon him the person of a man in 1those yearnings of his bowels, that is, When he would express his mercy, mark, there God would come in the most familiar way to make us know the meaning of his mercy; but when he comes to speak of Anger, there he would have us know that he is not like to a man in way of Anger; in the way of Mercy, saith he, if there be the most merciful man upon earth, know that I am like him; but when I come to anger, I am not like man in the way of anger: God is very desirous that we understand fully his heart in the ways of his mercy, but when he speaks of the execution of his wrath, I will not do that, why? For I am a God, and not a Man: And mark the strength of this expression, the difference between God and Man in the point of the execution of wrath, you will find it very 2useful to you; First for the opening of it, and then for the several Observations to be drawn from it.
Before God took upon him the person of a man in 1those yernings of his bowels, that is, When he would express his mercie, mark, there God would come in the most familier way to make us know the meaning of his mercy; but when he comes to speak of Anger, there he would have us know that he is not like to a man in way of Anger; in the way of Mercie, saith he, if there be the most merciful man upon earth, know that I am like him; but when I come to anger, I am not like man in the way of anger: God is verie desirous that we understand fully his heart in the waies of his mercy, but when he speaks of the execution of his wrath, I will not do that, why? For I am a God, and not a Man: And mark the strength of this expression, the difference between God and Man in the point of the execution of wrath, you will find it very