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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 5: VER. 5.
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Sixthly, From hence follows, That whatsoever is in 1God, is God Himself, from this Name Jehovah, He is an Absolute Being, nothing but Himself: This is the difference between God and any Creature: Whatsoever is in the Creature, is not the being of the Creature. A man hath Wisdom, now the Wisdom of a man is one, and the Esteem of the man is another thing; but it is not so with God, whatsoever you can say of God, is God, the Wisdom of God, is God; the Mercy of God, is God; the Justice of God, is God Himself: and so all the Attributes: ⟨p. 274⟩we conceive of the Attributes as if they were distinct from the Being; when we say, God is wise, as if God were one thing, and Wisdom were another; but certainly if we would apprehend God as in Himself, we cannot apprehend him so; As if his Wisdom were one thing, and God another; or his Mercy one thing, and God another; so that the truth is, nothing can properly be predicated of God, because when a thing is predicated there's a difference between the Subject and the Predicate, but there's 2no such distinction in God; but whatsoever can be said of God, is God Himself, and there's as much of the glory of God appears in this one thing, in this (I say) that all that is in God is God Himself. The understanding God thus doth help us to see God in his glory as much as any way 3whatsoever, and few people apprehend this, but look upon God as a Creature, and so they think God is some excellent thing that hath so many Excellencies in him; but to understand, that all that is said of God, is God Himself, and therefore it is all but one being in God; it doth appear divers to us, Wisdom, Mercy, Justice, Power, Life, Holiness, and Faithfulness appears many things to us, but in God all is but one Excellency; As now, The beams of the Sun appear divers to us, they shine through a blue glass, and there's a blue reflection, and a 4green glass and then 'tis green, and a red glass and then 'tis red, but all one beam: So the Infinite, First, Absolute Being of all things appearing in the several workings of His, in the several Administrations of His, this way or that way, seem to be several, but it's all but one being that is in himself: and this is signified by the Name Jehovah.