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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.
Mercy, when men offend by Infirmity, when I see it's 1but a weakness, it is not through wilfulness, Mercy then should be shown.
- 1Answ. […]. When we are to show Mercy.Answ. 〈…〉. When we are to shew Mercy.
Oh that we would consider of this, our brethren that sometime differ from us in Judgment, in practice, consider, 1Do they appear in any of their carriages any ways, 2to be wilful in their way? can you take it upon your consciences, that it is through obstinacy, and through any wicked principles that they have, that they go against conscience? doth it not appear in all their other ways that they walk humbly and conscionably, that if they be in the wrong, yet it is through mere weakness that they cannot see the Truth, that thou thinkest thou doest see? Now thou shouldest be merciful towards them, and carry not thy self in a ridged, severe, bitter, and harsh way towards them, but in a Merciful way, Mercy when the offence is by infirmity.
Oh that we would consider of this, our brethren that sometime differ from us in Judgment, in practice, consider, 1Do they appear in any of their carriages any waies, 2to be wilful in their way? can you take it upon your consciences, that it is through obstinacy, and through any wicked principles that they have, that they go against conscience? doth it not appear in all their other waies that they walk humbly and conscionably, that if they be in the wrong, yet it is through meer weakness that they cannot see the Truth, that thou thinkest thou doest see? Now thou shouldest be merciful towards them, and carry not thy self in a ridged, severe, bitter, and harsh way towards them, but in a Merciful way, Mercy when the offence is by infirmity.