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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.
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:
There were in the end of the former Chapter dreadful threatnings 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 ridgedness and severity? Where is the Mercy, Goodnese, and Clemency of God towards his people? What! to have the Mother dasht 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:
- 1The coherence.The coh•e•ence.
That, God stands much upon the clearing of Himself to be a God of love and mercy: Whatsoever becomes of wicked 1