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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.
Fourthly, Here we may see the providence of God, ⟨p. 225⟩1how it extends towards infants, even in the very womb; the very striving of children in the womb is not without providence; there was a mighty providence of God in this, to set out the greatest things of God that are revealed in the Scripture. Now though there be such extraordinary and great things set forth by the ordinary stirrings of infants in the womb, yet certainly there is no stirring of the child in the womb but it is with some providence of God, and God he hath his eye upon, and his hand in the working even of the very child in the womb.
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And yet further, Luther observes the secret ways of 1God in working upon infants, and though they have not the use of Reason, yet saith he, there may be mighty workings of God even upon their spirits in a secret way that we are not able to understand: And upon that occasion he falls a crying out upon such as do deny baptism to them, upon that very ground, because they are not capable of any work of God upon them, and the denying of it upon that ground, he calls it a very odious 2opinion, to think that because of that, they should not have it, for saith he, as it is with children, they have their nourishment in the womb in another manner than when they are born, and so the works of God upon their spirits may be such as when they are in the womb, and when they are little ones before they come to the use of Reason, that may be far different to what the work of God is upon them when they come afterwards to have the use of Reason.
And yet further, Luther observes the secret waies of 1