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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.
If the consideration of the glory of God above a man doth thus aggravate thy sin to thy humiliation, then it will aggravate the mercy of God to thy consolation as well; If thou workest this thought upon thy heart, Oh my sin is against a God and not a man, and therefore my heart is humbled, then the Lord would have thee to make use of the consideration of his glory as a God for thy comfort; God is a God, and not a man, in the way of mercy. The Holy one in the midst of thee.
If the confideration of the glory of God above a man doth thus aggravate thy sin to thy humiliation, then it will aggravate the mercy of God to thy consolation as well; If thou workest this thought upon thy heart, Oh my sin is against a God and not a man, and therefore my heart is humbled, then the Lord would have thee to make use of the consideration of his glory as a God for thy comfort; God is a God, and not a man, in the way of mercy. The Holy one in the midst of thee.
God glories much in his Holiness, and that in the midest of his people.
Gods Holiness is,