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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 4: VER. 4.
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What prayer will then?
Such a prayer as Jacob's was, in Gen. 32. 9. there […] 1shall find how your Father Jacob prayed, and there […] excellent Ingredients; saith the text, And Jacob said, O God of my Father Abraham, and God of my Father Isaac, &c.
Such a prayer as Jacob's was, in Gen. 32. 9. there 〈…〉 1shall find how your Father Jacob prayed, and there 〈…〉 excellent Ingredients; saith the text, And Jacob said, O God of my Father Abraham, and God of my Father Isaac, &c.
- 1Quest. Answ.
That's the First Ingredient to Prayer, Faith in the Covenant of God, upon that the strength of any prayer most depends; 1Indeed to have strong Expressions, and Affections in prayer are good; but Strength of Faith in the Covenant of God is the greatest strength of prayer, and it was with this strength that Jacob did prevail: Oh! God of my Father Abraham, and God of my Father Isaac, as if he should say, Oh! thou God that hast entered into Covenant with my Father Abraham, and Isaac, O God, remember thy COVENANT, O God, I rest upon […] COVENANT, the COVENANT of Grace that […] hast made with them, for so certainly that with […] hans and Isaac was the same, for it's said, That Circum[…]