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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 6: VER. 6.
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Thirdly, Because God is JEHOVAH, therefore turn 1unto the Lord. There's a great deal of force in this Name to cause sinners to turn to him, because he is Jehovah, for this Name JEHOVAH hath as much terror in it to a guilty ungodly soul, as we read of in all the Book of 2God, I say, put all together that we read in the Book of God, yet if we did but throughly understand the Name Jehovah we should see as much terror in it to a guilty conscience, and a sinful soul that goes on in the ways of wickedness, as almost all that is mentioned of God that might be terrible. As thus,
Thirdly, Because God is JEHOVAH, therefore turn 1unto the Lord. There's a great deal of force in this Name to cause sinners to turn to him, because he is Jehovah, for this Name JEHOVAH hath as much terror in it to a guilty ungodly soul, as we reade of in all the Book of 2God, I say, put all together that we reade in the Book of God, yet if we did but throughly understand the Name Jehovah we should see as much terror in it to a guilty conscience, and a sinful soul that goes on in the waies of wickedness, as almost all that is mentioned of God that might be terrible. As thus,
- 1Obs. 3.
- 2What Terror in the Name-Jehovah.What Terror in the Name-Iehovah.
JEHOVAH.] If he be Jehovah, he hath power over every thing that hath a being to torment thee with it, for he hath all being in Himself, all being is from him, and the dispose of all, therefore whatsoever thing hath any being in it, this God hath the power over it, to make use of it to torment thee withal. Do but consider how some little creature, if it be in some part of a mans body, what power it hath to bring torment, a little gravel in the kidneys, or stone in the bladder, that's but a poor weak creature in its self, but being in that place, what tortor