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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.
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 delights to receive his people in their fears with suitable, 1and seasonable mercies. Jacob was never in greater fears than at those two times, yet now the Lord comes at this time of his great straits, and tells him now of multiplying of him to many Nations, and that Kings should come out of his loins; at that time when he was afraid that the Nations should come and destroy all that belonged to him, at that time God tells him that Kings should come out of his loins: Oh! the Lord delights to revive his people in their fears, and doth come with suitable mercies to them.
That God delights to receive his people in their fears with sutable, 1and seasonable mercies. Iacob was never in greater fears than at those two times, yet now the Lord comes at this time of his great straits, and tells him now of multiplying of him to many Nations, and that Kings should come out of his loyns; at that time when he was afraid that the Nations should come and destroy all that belonged to him, at that time God tells him that Kings should come out of his loyns: Oh! the Lord delights to revive his people in their fears, and doth come with sutable mercies to them.
- 1Obs. 3.
Oh it should teach us to be tender-hearted towards the 1Saints that are in sears and troubles, and to labour to ⟨p. 268⟩comfort our Brethren with seasonable and suitable mercies, And especially after great conflicts, that's observable; for Jacob had been wrestling with God not long before, and after these great conflicts God comes with the manifestation of great mercies, this God spake to us there, That we should not be discouraged, though God bring us into great conflicts; because after those times are the seasons for God to speak the most comfortable, and the most encouraging things unto us. There God spake to us. So you see the Third Story thus opened unto you, and the usefulness of it, I know scarce a Scripture fuller than these two verses.