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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.
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 God finds his People many times when they little think 1of him: He comes unto his People in ways of mercy when they scarce dream of it: Jacob was but in a dream at this time, and yet God came in very wonderful ways of mercy towards him.
That God finds his People many times when they little think 1of him: He comes unto his People in waies of mercy when they scarce dream of it: Jacob was but in a dream at this time, and yet God came in very wonderful waies of mercy towards him.
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Oh! how often hath God found us in this way? how 1often may many of you say, that the Lord hath come unexpectedly to you in ways of mercy? that you never made account of such mercies as you have met withal. Oh! when unexpected mercies come, we should consider that God found us, whereas our sins might have found ⟨p. 263⟩us; but the mercies of God have found us out.
Oh! how often hath God found us in this way? how 1often may many of you say, that the Lord hath come unexpectedly to you in waies of mercy? that you never made account of such mercies as you have met withal. Oh! when unexpected mercies come, we should consider that God found us, whereas our sins might have found ⟨p. 263⟩us; but the mercies of God have found us out.