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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.
Further, If man forbears and passes by offences now, 1he cannot have the offenders again at advantage when he pleases, and therefore he thinks he had best take the advantages now; Oh but I am a God and not man, my Creatures I have them always at advantage; it's true, I can spare them now, for I can have them under my feet again, and again, and again, and therefore I have no such reason to take advantage of my poor Creatures as one man hath of another.
Further, If man forbears and passes by offences now, 1he cannot have the offenders again at advantage when he pleases, and therefore he thinks he had best take the advantages now; Oh but I am a God and not man, my Creatures I have them alwaies at advantage; it's true, I can spare them now, for I can have them under my feet again, and again, and again, and therefore I have no such reason to take advantage of my poor Creatures as one man hath of another.
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Lastly, I am God and not man; that is, Man he is bound to positive rules of Justice that are set to him, but 1I am a God and not man, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and whom I will I harden.
Lastly, I am God and not man; that is, Man he is bound to positive rules of Justice that are set to him, but 1I am a God and not man, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercie, and whom I will I harden.
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