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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 4: VER. 4.
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And then the next thing in his prayer it was, The strong 1arguments that he did use with God; though it's true, That what we can say to God cannot move God, yet it may move our own hearts, and God would have us to use strong arguments in prayer; And thou saidest (in ver. 12.) I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand on the Sea which cannot be numbered for multitude. As if he should say, Lord, how will thy promise be fulfilled? diddest thou not say that my seed should be as the sand of the Sea? now if the mother and children be cut off, what will become of thy Promise?
And then the next thing in his prayer it was, The strong 1arguments that he did use with God; though it's true, That what we can say to God cannot move God, yet it may move our own hearts, and God would have us to use strong arguments in prayer; And thou saidest (in ver. 12.) I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand on the Sea which cannot be numbred for multitude. As if he should say, Lord, how will thy promise be fulfill'd? didest thou not say that my seed should be as the sand of the Sea? now if the mother and children be cut off, what will become of thy Promise?
- 18. Strong Arguments.
God is so indulgent as to suffer us to plead our cause with him. And these pleading prayers are strong prayers, 1he wept and made supplication, so he prevailed with God. Now labour you, (if you be of the seed of Jacob) to pray as your Father Jacob did. But so much shall suffice for that Second History, about Jacob's prevailing with the Angel.
God is so indulgent as to suffer us to plead our cause with him. And these pleading prayers are strong prayers,