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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.
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 2translates it, I am a God; and not a Noble man; you shall not have such dealings with me as from your great men, many great then make great and fair promise• and you 3depend upon them, but they will deceive you, according to that in Psal. 62. 9. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lye; and your Courtiers ⟨p. 172⟩and great men, how do they deceive the expectation of those that are with them, especially in their need, they leave them in the lurch many times; but I am a God and not man, you shall not have such unfaithful dealings with me.
Tenthly, Man though he promises much mercie, yet 1oftimes, if those that he promises meroy to do offend him, he will recal 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 recal my Promises though they be unfaithful and sinful. Man doth not only recal 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