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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 11 › Verse 1: VERS. 1.
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The Church (that's the Note from hence) is related to God 1as a son to the father; yea, the very first-born; what God speaks of the people of Israel is especially intended towards 2his Saints which are the true Israel of God, they have the privilege to be sons unto God, to be children, Is it a light matter (saith David) to be the son in Law to to a King? but then what do you think it is to be the son to the King of Heaven and Earth? and the Heir of Heaven and Earth? Is Ephraim my dear son? Jer. 31. 20. Ephraim my dear son, This is the privilege therefore of the Saints, that God deals with them as sons, I'll spare them as a Father spareth his own son that serveth him, in the 3third Chapter of Malachi, the 17. verse. And the special privilege that they have from this is, that they are not 4under that Law that slaves are under, in reference to God; those that are in the state of slavery they are under ⟨p. 12⟩this Law, Do, or Die, if thou doest offend but in the least thou shalt perish for ever, the curse of the Law is upon thee; But the Sons of God are brought into another condition not to be under that Law, they indeed if they 5do offend may be corrected and chastised, but they are never under the Law of the sentence of eternal death for their offence; there's a great deal of difference between the administration of God towards Slaves, and towards Sons, This is the great privilege of Son-ship, That thou art not under the Law, thou art brought under another Law, under the Law of Jesus Christ, that though thy sin indeed of its own nature, if God should deal with thee in Justice, would be enough to put thee under an eternal Curse, yet being a Son, God puts thee under another Law, and doth not deal with thee by that Law that pronounces a Curse against every sin. They are Sons.