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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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it's not impossible that such things may be done, surely one would not have thought that they that were at such a distance as they were, that they should have come so together, surely we have never provoked our brethren so as Esau hath done Jacob: let's not be troubled more than God would have us, but seek God, and wrestle with God, it's in vain to stand wrestling with them, giving ill word for ill word, and pen for pen, that's not the way, but wrestle with God, and walk convincingly before them, and so you may turn the hearts of our rough brethren, and that in a little time; surely it's not more impossible to solder the spirits of brethren that seem not to be at so great a distance and so embittered one against another, it is not more impossible to solder them, than it was here with God to solder the spirits of Esau and Jacob, and to have such a comfortable meeting as there was at this time.
it's not impossible that such things may be done, surely one would not have thought that they that were at such a distance as they were, that they should have come so together, surely we have never provoked our brethren so as Esau hath done Jacob: let's not be troubled more than God would have us, but seek God, and wrastle with God, it's in vain to stand wrastling with them, giving ill word for ill word, and pen for pen, that's not the way, but wrastle with God, and walk convincingly before them, and so you may turn the hearts of our rough brethren, and that in a little time; surely it's not more impossible to soder the spirits of brethren that seem not to be at so great a distance and so imbittered one against another, it is not more impossible to soder them, than it was here with God to soder the spirits of Esau and Jacob, and to have such a comfortable meeting as there was at this time.
In this prevailing of Jacob against Esau we have a type of the Churches prevailing against all the ungodly; though the Enemies may be strong and furious, certainly the people of God shall prevail. As before in Jacobs taking Esau by the heel, there was a type that the people of God shall supplant all the wicked; so in Jacob's prevailing at this time, here's a type that certainly the Churches shall prevail let men do what they will, and be as bitter as they will, the Jacobs shall prevail at length.