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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 5: VER. 5.
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.
And further; By the Name Jehovah, is signified to us, That all the being of the Creature depends upon God, 1is from God originally, and so depends upon God every 2moment, every time you hear the Name Jehovah you should be put in mind of this, That as all creatures had ⟨p. 285⟩what they had from God at first, so they do absolutely depend upon God every moment for their being, and for all the good they have.
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- 2The name Jehovah, what it should remind us of.The name Iehovah, what it shold remind us of.
And then lastly, In this Name is signified thus much, 1That the Lord will give a being unto all his Promises, and to all his Threatenings; And therefore when he did appear to Moses, to tell him that he would fulfil the Promise made to his people, to bring them out of Egypt, then he doth tell him that indeed, though he did appear to Abraham by the name Elshaddai, God-All-sufficient, yet he did not appear to him by the name Jehovah, which is as much as if he should say, yea indeed, when I spake to Abraham, I made a Promise to him, that I would give him such a Land, and thus and thus, but I did not give a being to the Promises; but now I come to make way to the fulfilling of this Promise, now I appear to be Jehovah, thus Jehovah is Gods memorial, that is, every time you read of the name Jehovah, (it might very well be wished that the very word Jehovah had been kept in 2your English Translation, but almost always when you read the word Lord