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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.
First, That God made a Covenant with him. Oh 'tis a great mercy of God, and a fruit of great love, that such an infinite God would be pleased to make a Covenant with his people, to bring them into Covenant with him; all man-kind was in Covenant with God at first, but falling from that first Covenant, there was but only a peculiar people that God took into Covenant with himself, and made it as a fruit of his great love, to take a certain people into Covenant with himself more than others.
First, That God made a Covenant with him. Oh 'tis a great mercy of God, and a fruit of great love, that such an infinite God would be pleased to make a Covenant with his people, to bring them into Covenant with him; all man-kind was in Covenant with God at first, but falling from that first Covenant, there was but only a peculier people that God took into Covenant with himself, and made it as a fruit of his great love, to take a certain people into Covenant with himself more than others.
And secondly, Thou becamest mine; that is, I had separated thee for my self, and took thee for a peculiar one to me, and intended special mercy and goodness to thee, Thou becamest mine, so as that I should have a special propriety in thee, and thou shouldest have a special propriety in me.