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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.
I answer: If it were of foreseen works, there were no 1Argument in this to prove Gods free election, but the Apostle makes it to be an Argument to prove Gods free election of Jacob rather than Esau, because he chose them in the womb.
I answer: If it were of foreseen works, there were no 1Argument in this to prove Gods free election, but the Apostle makes it to be an Argument to prove Gods free election of Iacob rather than Esau, because he chose them in the womb.
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Luther upon the 25. Chap. of Genesis hath an excellent 1discourse upon this subject, concerning Gods rejecting the pride, pomp and vanity of the world, and choosing the things that are mean and contemptible in the eyes of the world; and it was an emblem of it, in that God would rather choose Jacob the plain man, than Esau the hunter, and the hairy man: I say, it was an emblem of this, That the Lord intends to reject the brave things in the world, the gallantry, glory and pomp of the world, and will rather choose the mean and contemptible things of the world: Who can persuade (saith Luther upon the place) the Pope, and Charles the fifth, the French King, and the like, ⟨p. 222⟩that they being great in the world, yet are contemptible in the eyes of God, and God hath rather chosen despised and contemptible things than them? And that was the scope of the Prophet to humble this people, that they should consider of the free grace of God towards Jacob.
Luther upon the 25. Chap. of Genesis hath an excellent