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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.
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And we should make use of this, We are to consider the 1free Grace of God how it hath wrought in choosing our for fathers, and what good we do enjoy by such a choice, we are to acknowledge it to be a fruit of free Grace too; Others were before God as well as our forefathers; as now, when God brought the Gospel first to England, other Nations were before God as well as them, It was mere free Grace that pitched upon them rather than others, and we enjoy the blessing of it to this day, let us not sin against this free Grace of God showed to our Ancestors.
And we should make use of this, We are to consider the 1free Grace of God how it hath wrought in chusing our for fathers, and what good we do enjoy by such a choice, we are to acknowledg it to be a fruit of free Grace too; Others were before God as well as our forefathers; as now, when God brought the Gospel first to England, other Nations were before God as well as them, It was meer free Grace that pitcht upon them rather than others, and we enjoy the blessing of it to this day, let us not sin against this free Grace of God shewed to our Ancestors.
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And more particularly, You that now enjoy great blessings from Gods mercies to your Ancestors either outward or inward, 1you must consider the free Grace of God; as now, such of you as are rich, great in the world; whence is it that your Ancestors were richer than others, and were not beggars as well as others? Was it not free Grace, free Grace in 2in the kind of it? it was the free goodness of God; Others that had their Ancestors to be beggars they were before God in the same lump with your Ancestors, and that God should rather pitch upon your Ancestors to be honourable in the earth and rich, and you enjoy the benefit of it in this world, look to the free goodness of God that hath made such a difference between your Ancestors and others; it may be some of you, though you be honourable, and rich, yet your elder Brother might be rejected, and sometimes Families rises from the younger Brother rather than the elder; It was so here, Jacob that was the younger he afterwards came to have the blessing, and Esau rejected. And it may be that the posterity of the elder Brother proves wicked; it was so here, Religion