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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 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.
And the Third History, partly in the 28, and partly 1in the 35. of Gen.
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The first is, He took his brother by the heel. You must 1refer to that Scripture in Gen. to know the mind of God in this, there you shall find that in the womb of Rebekah there was a striving between Jacob and Esau, this was before they were born, and at their birth Jacob put his hand out and takes his brother by the heel, from whence he had his name Jacob; that signifies a heel, and from thence 2a Supplanter. And Esau he hath his name of Acting or Doing, he was made a man, that is, because he was hairy when he was born, he was as it were a man already, from whence he had his name Esau, he is (as it were) a man made in the womb: Saith *Luther, here's the man that will do all things famously; when Esau was born, and they saw him so hairy, they thought he was the man that would do very great and famous things in the world, and from thence he had his name Esau: Now Jacob in his birth he takes this Esau that every one thought when he was born would have been a famous man, and done famous things, he takes him by the heel: saith Luther upon the place, a most wonderful History, this taking his brother by the heel.
The first is, He took his brother by the heel. You must 1refer to that Scripture in Gen. to know the mind of God in this, there you shall find that in the womb of Rebekah there was a striving between Iacob and Esau, this was before they were born, and at their birth Iacob put his hand out and takes his brother by the heel, from whence he had his name Iacob; that signifies a heel, and from thence