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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 10: VER. 10.
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.
Thus the soul converted to God, loves to walk after him.
But this is spoken of the Church, as walking after the 1Lord in times of Reformation, especially that famous time of the restitution of all things, when God shall call home his people, the ten Tribes, who yet are scattered up and down wandering and groping in darkness; They shall walk after the Lord, the Lord shall be a Captain to them, leading them along as his redeemed ones, working by them glorious things in the earth, and bringing them through all opposition to places of rest, and fullness of all good; God shall appear in such visible administrations of his, so as they shall say, Lo, this is our God, this is the Captain of the host of the Lord, yea, it is even the Lord himself, we will join together and follow him, whose wisdom, faithfulness, and courage is infinite; we will follow no other but him, and in subordination to him. The sight of such a Captain going before them, shall put life, courage, and magnanimity into them, whatsoever they were before. Hence note,
But this is spoken of the Church, as walking after the 1Lord in times of Reformation, especially that famous time of the restitution of all things, when God shall call home his people, the ten Tribes, who yet are scattered up and down wandring and groping in darkness; They shall walk after the Lord, the Lord shall be a Captain to them, leading them along as his redeemed ones, working by them glorious things in the earth, and bringing them through all opposition to places of rest, and fulness of all good; God shall appear in such visible administrations of his, so as they shall say, Lo, this is our God, this is the Captain of the host of the Lord, yea, it is even the Lord himself, we will joyn together and follow him, whose wisdom, faithfulness, and courage is infinite; we will follow no other but him, and in subordination to him. The sight of such a Captain going before them, shall put life, courage, and magnanimity into them, whatsoever they were before. Hence note,