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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 3: VER. 3.
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.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength had power with God, &c.
This Prophet inveighing against the sins of these ten Tribes, and threatening Judgments in these words; He takes away the plea that he saw was in their hearts against what he had said, We are the children of Jacob, and why do you thus charge us, and threaten us in the Name of God? was not Jacob our Father? As in Christs time they pleaded that Abraham was their Father.
THis Prophet enveighing against the sins of these ten Tribes, and threatning Judgments in these words; He takes away the plea that he saw was in their hearts against what he had said, We are the children of Jacob, and why do you thus charge us, and threaten us in the Name of God? was not Jacob our Father? As in Christs time they pleaded that Abraham was their Father.
Now in these words read unto you, the Prophet takes away this plea, and the scope of them comes to this, as 1if he had said, you may bless your selves in that Jacob was your Father, but it will do you little good, for you are a degenerate off-spring from him; It's true, God was very gracious to Jacob, and Jacob was very deer to God, it's otherwise with you, Jacob worshipped God after another manner than you do; The Prophet therefore sets before this people here in the words read, Gods mercy to Jacob, and Jacobs graciousness in his behaviour towards God, that he might upbraid those children of Jacob, who walked so unworthy of such a gracious Father as Jacob was, that's the scope.
Now in these words read unto you, the Prophet takes away this plea, and the scope of them comes to this, as