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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.
Eighthly, Man, he cannot foresee the consequences that 1may follow upon his forbearing, or pardoning of offences, and therefore he is loth to forbear or pardon: But I am a God and not man, I have infinite wisdom and can foresee all consequences that will come.
Eightly, Man, he cannot foresee the consequences that 1may follow upon his forbearing, or pardoning of offences, and therefore he is loth to forbear or pardon: But I am a God and not man, I have infinite wisdom and can foresee all consequences that will come.
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Ninthly, Man, he cannot work good out of what ill 1carriages there are against him, and that makes him not to forbear; but I am a God and not man, I know how to work out mine own ends, and for the glory of my Name out of all the sins of my people.
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Tenthly, Man though he promises much mercy, yet 1ofttimes, if those that he promises mercy to do offend him, he will recall his promise again, and he thinks he may do it, and he makes all his promises but conditional; yea, but I am a God and not man, I do not stand so upon it, though I know beforeh and there will be many weaknesses, and infirmities is my creature, yet I have some promises that are absolute promises to those that are my Elect Ones, and I will not recall my Promises though they be unfaithful and sinful. Man doth not only recall Promises when there is occasion given, but many times through unfaithfulness. And therefore I remember Brentius an approved Divine, hath this More upon this place, The word (saith he) is Ish, not Adam, and so he