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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.
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.
Now then for the Observations from them. The first is this,
Though God be never so strong and terrible in himself, never ⟨p. 286⟩1so great and glorious, yet faith hath strength to wrestle with this God, it's brought in to this end, Jacob he prevailed with God. God, what God? The Lord of Hosts, Jehovah, even this God that is the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of all Armies, that hath all power, that is so terrible in all the Armies in Heaven and Earth, and is this Jehovah, this Infinite, Glorious, Supreme, Eternal First-being of all things? and yet Jacob wrestles with this Lord of Hosts, God Jehovah, and prevails with him.
Though God be never so strong and terrible in himself, never ⟨p. 286⟩1so great and glorious, yet faith hath strength to wrastle with this God, it's brought in to this end, Iacob he prevailed with God. God, what God? The Lord of Hosts, Iehovah, even this God that is the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of all Armies, that hath al power, that is so terrible in all the Armies in Heaven and Earth, and is this Iehovah, this Infinite, Glorious, Supream, Eternal First-being of all things? and yet Iacob wrastles with this Lord of Hosts, God Iehovah, and prevails with him.
- 1Obs. 1.
So that hence Christians should learn, to raise up 1