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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 11 › Verse 1: VERS. 1.
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But Thirdly, I loved him when he was a child. […] very 1[…] to mind Gods old love. That's the Third Note; The love of God unto us when we were children; yea, the love of God unto our fore-fathers, the love of God unto a people when they were at the first beginning, the ancient love of God to a people, 'tis of very g[…] use, it is of great use for all to consider of the love of God in former times to them; nay brethren, it would be of very great 2use for us to consider of ancient love of God to England. And I will give you one remarkable Note of Gods ancient love to this Nation, that's this; That it was the first Nation that ever God set his heart upon for the choosing of the Gospel, the first Nation in the world that by public Authority 3did submit to the Gospel, and certainly God remembers that love of England. For we find it recorded; it's true, we cannot expect Scripture for this, because it was 4••nce the time of any Scripture; but so far as we may give any credit to Stories, we find it, of all Nations upon the face of the Earth, the first that received the Gospel with the Countenance of Public Authority. And this is not a little matter: Certainly the Lord remembers the kindness 5of our youth, and the old love of England, and the first love of England in receiving the Gospel. Indeed God caused the Gospel to be preached to other places before it was to England; I, but there was no place that by the countenance of Public Authority […] it so soon as England did, and therefore England may be said to be the very first fruits of the Gospel in that respect. Oh! 'tis good for us to consider of that, and many good uses we may make of ⟨p. 7⟩Gods old & ancient love; when we see any further expressions of Gods love it may encourage us upon the thoughts of his former love, there was an old love and this God continues, his old love unto his people, and surely God intends yet further love unto us.