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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.
The Third thing was, God would have faith raised to believe 1in mercies promised, even when there is a great deal of unlikelihood of the fulfilling of it; that's the Third thing he he spake of to us there; he tells Jacob there at that time when he was a poor, lone man, with his staff, and no provision but a stone for his pillow, then he tells him of making good his promise, it was as unlikely a time as could be, a poor, lone man that Jacob was, went over with his staff at that time, and that he should have such a Promise fulfilled, and his seed to be so great, and to inherit the hand of Canaan, how unlikely was this? But God would have him to exercise his faith upon the Promise at this time when there was such a great unlikelihood of it.
The Third thing was, God would have faith raised to beleeve 1in mercies promised, even when there is a great deal of unlikelihood of the fulfilling of it; that's the Third thing he he spake of to us there; he tells Jacob there at that time when he was a poor, lone man, with his staff, and no provision but a stone for his pillow, then he tells him of making good his promise, it was as unlikely a time as could be, a poor, lone man that Jacob was, went over with his staff at that time, and that he should have such a Promise fulfill'd, and his seed to be so great, and to inherit the hand of Canaan, how unlikely was this? But God would have him to exercise his faith upon the Promise at this time when there was such a great unlikelihood of it.
- 1Obs. 3.
The Fourth thing is this, That the multiplying of the 1Church is a great blessing, for saith he, thy seed shall be thus and thus, as the sand of the Sea shore, I'll increase my Church abundantly from thy loins.