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Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…
Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication of the 14th chapter of the Prophet Hosea in seven sermons preached upon so many days of solemn humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Thomas Newcomb for Robert Bostock, 1649
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Asshur shall not save us] Unto the general confession of sin intimated in those words,1 Take away All Iniquity, here is added a particular detestation of their special sins, with a Covenant to forsake them, lest waxing wanton with pardon and grace, they should relapse into them again. The sum is to confess the vanity of carnal confidence, betaking it self to the aid of men, to the strength of horses, to the superstition of Idols for safety and deliverance. All which they are now at last by their experience, and by their Repentance taught to abandon, as things which indeed cannot, and therefore they are resolved shall not save them.
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By the Assyrian is here intimated All Humane succour procured by sinful correspondence, by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole. But he is particularly mentioned, 1. Because he was the chief Monarch of the world, to show, that the greatest worldly succours are vain, when they are relied up on without, or against God. 2. Because the Scripture takes notice often of it as their particular sin, the sending unto, relying upon, and paying tribute unto him for aid and assistance. Hos. 5.13.7, 11, 12. 2 Reg. 15.19, 20. 3. Because instead of helping, he did greatly afflict them. Their flying to him was like a birds flying into a snare, or a fishes avoiding the pole wherewith the water is troubled, by swimming into the net. 2 Reg. 15.29. Hos. 13.4.
By the Assyrian is here intimated All Humane succour procured by sinful correspondence, by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole. But he is particularly mentioned, 1. Because he was the chiefe Monarch of the world, to shew, that the greatest worldly succours are vain, when they are relied up on without, or against God. 2. Because the Scripture takes notice often of it as their particular sin, the sending unto, relying upon, and paying tribute unto him for aid and assistance.