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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 for the First, that which is implied here, He had 1power with the Angel, that is, with God, when he came and wrestled with him in such a time of so great extremity.
And for the First, that which is implied here, He had 1power with the Angel, that is, with God, when he came and wrastled with him in such a time of so great extremity.
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Oh! I beseech you observe this in the first place, This 1is Gods way with his Saints, sometimes with his best and dearest Saints, that when they are in the greatest dangers, and in the greatest afflictions and troubles, God even then comes and seems to be an enemy to them at that ⟨p. 229⟩time; for the time that God came & wrestled with him, and seemed to be as an enemy to him, it was in the time of the greatest extremity that one would think it's possible for a man to be in, you cannot apprehend greater distresses, or greater cause than there was for the distress, of Jacob at this time; A poor man with a few women and children and cattle, and having his brother that owed him a grudge, and had sought his death, to come with four hundred men in an hostile way, and he left alone, and at this time God appears like an enemy to him, this was sad, a very heavy condition indeed. As God did with Jacob, so with Christ himself; when Christ was betrayed, God never appeared in outward appearance against Christ as at that time when his Disciples left him, just in the night when he was to be betrayed then he was in an Agony, and sweat drops of water and blood, yea, and when he was in the hands of his enemies, and lift up to the Cross, and made a decision to all the world, yet then he cries, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Forsaken at that time in so great a distress; Jacob in this was even a type of Gods forsaking Christ in times of such great distress. And so we find in Job, when he was in so great distresses, yet the terrors of the Almighty were upon him. And Heman, with divers others that we might name: 'Tis a point of very great concernment to us; Oh