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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.
As if he should say, What, you are the posterity of ⟨p. 221⟩Jacob, and not of Esau, and you glory in this; Well, how comes it to pass there is so great a privilege to the posterity of Jacob rather than to the posterity of Esau? how comes this? Is it not from the free Grace of God in choosing one rather than the other, & that in the very womb? as in Mal. 1. 2. I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? yet I loved Jacob, and hated Esau. In this I manifested my free love, even unto this people, that though Esau was Jacob's brother, and eldest brother, yet I loved Jacob, and hated Esau. So in Rom. 9. 11. The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand; not of works, but of him that calleth. It was said, The elder shall serve the younger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Now this was to show Gods free grace, that it was in the womb.
As if he should say, What, you are the posterity of ⟨p. 221⟩Jacob, and not of Esau, and you glory in this; Wel, how comes it to pass there is so great a priviledge to the posterity of Iacob rather than to the posterity of Esau? how comes this? Is it not from the free Grace of God in chusing one rather than the other, & that in the very womb? as in Mal. 1. 2. I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? yet I loved Jacob, and hated Esau. In this I manifested my free love, even unto this people, that though Esau was Iacob's brother, and eldest brother, yet I loved Iacob, and hated Esau. So in Rom. 9. 11. The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand; not of works, but of him that calleth. It was said, The elder shall serve the yonger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Now this was to shew Gods free grace, that it was in the womb.