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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.
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.
Where there is a turning to God, there must be righteousness among men.1
- 1Obs.
Judgment] That is, Righteous Judgment among men, thou canst not turn to God from thy Unrighteousness, and to a Righteous God, and yet still not be Righteous towards men; Certainly if thou beest turned to God, from thy Unrighteousness towards a Righteous God, then thou will be turned likewise from thy unrighteousness towards men, and will be righteous towards them. Many texts of Scripture I might have shown you, that commend this Grace of Righteousness, and it's made the great Promise to the Glorious Church when that shall be, That Righteousness shall prevail there, that the People shall be a Righteous People.
Judgment] That is, Righteous Judgment among men, thou canst not turn to God from thy Unrighteousness, and to a Righteous God, and yet still not be Righteous towards men; Certainly if thou beest turn'd to God, from thy Unrighteousness towards a Righteous God, then thou will be turn'd likewise from thy unrighteousnes towards men, and will be righteous towards them. Many texts of Scripture I might have shewn you, that commend this Grace of Righteousness, and it's made the great Promise to the Glorious Church when that shall be, That Righteousness shall prevail there, that the People shall be a Righteous People.
And Judgment: Not only Judgment in doing no man any wrong, and being righteous in dealing; But thus 1Judgment, Execute Justice against Sin, manifest thy hatred against Sin, by the Execution of Judgment: This is the Note from thence,