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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 2: VER. 2.
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Now for the Answer to that, it's given thus; which is a very satisfying Answer, That therefore the People 1of God are called in Scripture by the name of Jacob, and by the name of Israel his other name, rather than by the name of Abraham and Isaac, because they (though godly) and were the Father and Grand-father, yet in Abraham's family there was wicked aswell as good; likewise from Isaac's loins there came Esau aswell as Jacob; but now from Jacobs loins there came none but were of Gods Church, all Jacobs Sons they are the twelve Patriarchs, and therefore they are called by the name of Jacob, rather than Abraham or Isaac; and therefore when he speaks of the People of God, he calls them the seed of Jacob, I said not to the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain.2
Now for the Answer to that, it's given thus; which is a very satisfying Answer, That therefore the People 1of God are call'd in Scripture by the name of Jacob, and by the name of Israel his other name, rather than by the name of Abraham and Isaac, because they (though godly) and were the Father and Grand-father, yet in Abrahams family there was wicked aswel as good; likewise from Isaac's loins there came Esau aswel as Jacob; but now from Jacobs loyns there came none but were of Gods Church, all Jacobs Sons they are the twelve Patriarchs, and therefore they are call'd by the name of Jacob, rather than Abraham or Isaac; and therefore when he speaks of the People of God, he calls them the seed of Jacob, I said not to the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain.