A30575:817
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.
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'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[…] 2sion was the sign and seal of the righteousness that he had […] Faith. And in Thee shall all the Nations of the Earth be bl[…] There was the Covenant of Grace. Now O Lord […] it is the Covenant of Grace that I rest upon in the […] straits. When you are in any strait, and go to Go[…] prayer, if you can have recourse to the Covenant […] Grace, and act your saith upon Gods Covenant with you, Oh! that will be a strong prayer. When there are but words in prayer they vanish as the wind, but when there is much saith in prayer, that makes it to prevail; the prayer of faith, that's prevalent, saith the Apostle James, ⟨p. 259⟩3that's the first ingredient in his prayer, he made supplication and exercises faith in the Covenant.
That's the First Ingredient to Prayer, Faith in the Covenant of God, upon that the strength of any prayr 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 entred 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