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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 12 › Verse 2: VER. 2.
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.
And there may be Four Reasons why after God had said, That Judah rules with God, and is faithful with the Saints, that he saith, He hath a Controversy with Judah.
And there may be Four Reasons why after God had said, That Judah rules with God, and is faithful with the Saints, that he saith, He hath a Controversie with Judah.
The First Reason is this, To show, that God doth not so look at the good of his People, but he sees the evil in them too. You know those passages in the 2d of Revelations, where God commends such and such Churches for doing thus and thus; but yet notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, I do not so observe your good, but I observe your evil too. My Brethren, some there are, that if there 1be any evil in men, they can see no good in them, this is wicked. But others there are that if there be any good in them, can see no evil; this is too much indulgence too, it is two extremities in both.
The First Reason is this, To shew, that God doth not so look at the good of his People, but he sees the evil in them too. You know those passages in the 2d of Revelations, where God commends such and such Churches for doing thus and thus; but yet notwithsthnding, I have a few things against thee, I do not so observe your good, but I observe your evil too. My Brethren, some there are, that if there