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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 12: VER. 12.
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.
Besets me with lies, that's the word, be besets me round; I am in respect of the sin of Ephraim, (that is, of the Governors, 1and of the [house of Israel] that is the People) I 2am (as it were) a man beset round. As a men that would have a passage such a way, he goes one way and there he is stopped; and another way and there he is stopped: so God compares himself to such a man, as if he would be going on in the ways of mercy, & there he is stop• in one co[…] of sin or another, and going on in another way, there […] is stopped again.
Besets me with lyes, that's the word, be besets me round; I am in respect of the sin of Ephraim, (that is, of the Governors, 1and of the [house of Israel] that is the People) I 2am (as it were) a man beset round. As a men that would have a passage such a way, he goes one way and there he is stopt; and another way and there he is stopt: so God compares himself to such a man, as if he would be going on in the waies of mercy, & there he is stop• in one co〈…〉 of sin or another, and going on in another way, there 〈…〉 is stopt again.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- 2Expos. general.