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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 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.
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 1be very pitiful when he is wronged himself, but it beseems him to be very righteous and just when the Public calls him. Keep MERCY, and JUDGMENT.
Well, If you would be merciful, be merciful in your own cause. Many men that will pleade for Indulgence to Malefactors, yet in their own business they have no Indulgence to those that offend them. It beseems a Judg to 1be very pitiful when he is wronged himself, but it beseems him to be very righteous and just when the Publick calls him. Keep MERCY, and JƲDGMENT.
- 1Pretended Mercy.
Mercy is first, and Judgment afterwards. The Scripture 1makes a difference between our respect to Mercy & Judgment: that place in Micah, The Lord hath shown thee, O man, what he would have thee to do, LOVE MERCY, and 2DO JUSTICE: There should be a Preheminency in Mercy, Mercy must not only be shown, but loved; and Justice must be done. And then, Keep MERCY and JUDGMENT.
Mercy is first, and Judgment afterwards. The Scripture 1makes a difference between our respect to Mercy & Judgment: that place in Micah, The Lord hath shewen thee, O man, what he would have thee to do, LOVE MERCY, and 2