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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.
That the times for the Churches prevailing, it is the times when they are most weak, when they are most unlikely to 1prevail, when they are lame, why then is the time for them to prevail; We are ready to think, Oh! if we could not get it when we had so much strength, is it like to be done now we have so little strength? Now by this Jacob came to be more humbled when his thigh was touched, so that he was lame: God uses to damp means, and to bring even the sentence of death before he doth intend to bring the greatest mercies.
That the times for the Churches prevailing, it is the times when they are most weake, when they are most unlikely to 1prevail, when they are lame, why then is the time for them to prevail; We are ready to think, Oh! if we could not get it when we had so much strength, is it like to be done now we have so little strength? Now by this Iacob came to be more humbled when his theigh was toucht, so that he was lame: God uses to damp means, and to bring even the sentence of death before he doth intend to bring the greatest mercies.
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Further, Jacob though he had a strong Adversary against him, and he wrestled long with him, and he was lame, yet continuing wrestling, he grew more resolute towards the latter end than he was before; for you never read of Jacob so peremptory before, I will not let thee go, until thou bless me; and that's one thing that's very observable for the sad condition Jacob was in, the hollow of his thigh was touched, and that likewise should have been added, That the Angel would have been gone, God would have been gone and have left him in that affliction, but then Jacob's spirit grew up more with a greater resolution than he had before, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me: It seems now that Jacob had more sight of him that he was God than he had before. This should be our way in our dealings with God, that when God brings us in the lowest condition, and God seems as if he would leave us, we should stir up our spirits then, and