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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.
It appears that when God came thus against him to 1wrestle with him, God intended no hurt to him, it was but to stir up his strength, and to prepare him for great deliverance, and for choice mercies, God at this time did intend to Jacob as great a mercy as ever he gave to any of the children of men in this world, and that was this, That he should have strength to prevail with God, and as a Prince to prevail with God, and that he should in this be a type of all his people hereafter that they should prevail with God, that he should have his name changed and be called Israel, because he was a Prince prevailing with God, and in this he should be honourable to the end of the world, and be set up as a type for the comfort of all the Saints to the end of the world; I say, it was as great a mercy as ever any mere child of man had in this world, at this time when Jacob was in the greatest depth of affliction almost as you can conceive a man to be in.
It appears that when God came thus against him to 1wrastle with him, God intended no hurt to him, it was but to stir up his strength, and to prepare him for great deliverance, and for choice mercies, God at this time did intend to Jacob as great a mercie as ever he gave to any of the children of men in this world, and that was this, That he should have strength to prevail with God, and as a Prince to prevail with God, and that he should in this be a type of all his people hereafter that they should prevail with God, that he should have his name changed and be called Israel, because he was a Prince prevailing with God, and in this he should be honorable to the end of the world, and be set up as a type for the comfort of al the Saints to the end of the world; I say, it was as great a mercy as ever any meer child of man had in this world, at this time when Jacob was in the greatest depth of affliction almost as you can conceive a man to be in.
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