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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.
By his strength he prevailed with God.
Strength: What strength, you will say?1
- 1Text. Quest. Answ.
He had very great bodily strength, he wrestled partly with bodily strength, as in Gen. 29. 8. 10. you shall find that Jacob was a very strong man of his body, for the Stone of the Well that the Shepherds was fain to meet together to roll away, Jacob took it and rolled it away presently; but certainly he had strength beyond his ordinary bodily strength at this time, God raised a bodily strength beyond what ever he had, and it's like beyond what ever man had before; God raised Samsons bodily strength to be very great, and the power of God was seen in that, and may be seen much in the elevating of nature in a creature, whereas the Scripture saith, The body that is sown in weakness, shall rise in power. I remember 1Luther saith, That mens bodies shall be raised to that 2strength that they shall be able to coss Mountains as a man tosseth a Ball. And Anselm hath such an expression 3tending that way, That the Saints shall be so strong in the world to come, that if they will they can shake the earth at their pleasure. Surely much bodily strength was here to wrestle with an Angel; you know the power of an Angel, one, in one night could slay above fourscore thousand men, and yet here Jacob himself wrestles