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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.
Yea, But I am like to be of no use to God. It's true, if you were to deal with a man, he might not be pleased, 1but God stands in no need of you, or any of his creatures, for he is a God, and not man; thou doest not honour God, as a God, if thou doest not cast thy soul upon his mercy, as the mercy of a God.
Yea, But I am like to be of no use to God. It's true, if you were to deal with a man, he might not be pleased, 1but God stands in no need of you, or any of his creatures, for he is a God, and not man; thou doest not honor God, as a God, if thou doest not cast thy soul upon his mercy, as the mercy of a God.
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If I put this unto thee, I hope the glory of it will be so great as will keep it from being abused, What, doest thou think thy condition is grievous, but doest thou think that such mercy would not serve the turn as this is that now I am naming, that thou shouldest have such mercy as an infinite God should therefore manifest, to 1that end that he might show to Men and Angels to all eternity what the power of his infinite Mercy can do? would not this mercy serve thy turn, such a mercy as this is? I'll name it again, abuse it at your peril Suppose thy condition so low, yet would not this serve thy turn, such mercy as an infinite God should show, to ⟨p. 177⟩that end that he might appear to men and Angels to all eternity, what he is able to do in the infiniteness of his mercy, Would not this serve thee, and help thee, and heal thee? Now this is tendered to thee in the Gospel, even this mercy is tendered to thee in Christ to be an object of thy faith; and the very presenting of this is a work of the Ministry of the Gospel that it might draw acts of faith,