An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
Author: Jeremiah Burroughs

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.]

Jeremiah Burroughs 1599–1646London: 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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That those who turn to God will manifest their hatred against sin, by the Execution of Judgment, if they be in place of Power. ¹Though in thine own cause thou mayest forbear, yea, thou shouldest be merciful; but when Public Manifestation of hatred against Sin requires Justice, then there's no place for Sparing; when God calls thee in any Public Place, to manifest hatred against Sin, then (I say) thou mayest not think of Sparing.

That those who turn to God will manifest their hatred against sin, by the Execution of Judgment, if they be in place of Power. ¹Though in thine own cause thou maiest forbear, yea, thou shouldest be merciful; but when Publick Manifestation of hatred against Sin requires Justice, then there's no place for Sparing; when God calls thee in any Publick Place, to manifest hatred against Sin, then (I say) thou maiest not think of Sparing.

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But you will say, Oh! I must pity, and show Mercy.¹

But you will say, Oh! I must pity, and shew Mercy.¹

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Well, If you would be merciful, be merciful in your own cause. Many men that will plead for Indulgence to Malefactors, yet in their own business they have no Indulgence to those that offend them. It beseems a Judg to

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