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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 1: VERS. 1.
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.
THIS Chapter is made by some, the sixth Sermon of Hosea's Prophecy. The scope 1of it is this: To clear God from severity, and to upbraid Israel for ungrateful and stubborn carriage, against Mercies and Means: and yet to promise mercy to the remnant, to his Elect ones, which is to the end of the 11. verse. As for the 12. verse, though it 2be made a part of this Chapter, yet it were more aptly a great deal joined to the 12. Chapter; and so it is by some.
THIS Chapter is made by some, the sixth Sermon of Hosea's Prophesie. The scope 1of it is this: To cleer God from severity, and to upbraid Israel for ungrateful and stuborn carriage, against Mercies and Means: and yet to promise mercy to the remnant, to his Elect ones, which is to the end of the 11. verse. As for the 12. verse, though it 2be made a part of this Chapter, yet it were more aptly a great deal joyned to the 12. Chapter; and so it is by some.
- 1The scope of the Chapter.
- 2Where the Chapter ends.
There were in the end of the former Chapter dreadful threatenings against Israel, that the Mothers should be dashed 1in pieces upon their Children, and the cutting off of the King utterly, this was in the close of the last Chapter. But now, doth not this argue God to be a God of rigidness and severity? Where is the Mercy, Goodness, and Clemency of God towards his people? What! to have the Mother dashed in pieces against her Children! To cut off the King of Israel u[…]terly! Yes, saith God, for all this I am a God of Mercy and Goodness, for I have manifested abundance of Mercy already, and am ready still to manifest more; but you have been a stubborn and a stout hearted people against me. And from that General scope, Note: