Hosea 13

I will not blot his name out of the book of life. The book of God's decree has no errata's in it, no blottings out: once justified never unjustified (Hosea 13:14). Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

He is not unjust if he lets one suffer, because he offended the law, nor if he save the other, because he will make use of his prerogative as he is king. 2. Though some are saved, and others perish, yet there is no unrighteousness in God, because whoever perishes, his destructio…

Object. Hosea 13:12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hid?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins: We often do that which merits wrath, grieve God's Spirit, relapse into sin; God passes by much, and spares us: God did not spare his natural Son (Romans 8:32), yet he will spare his adopted sons. God threatened Ephraim to make him…

I even I am the Lord, and besides me there is no Savior. And, I am the Lord the God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me: for there is no Savior beside me (Isaiah 43:11; Hosea 13:4). 2. There must be a proportion between the sin of man and the punishment of s…

3. In forsaking there is a great emphasis; anything but unkindness, and change of heart and love is well taken; this speaks against faith; though Christ could not apprehend this; the Lord cannot change, Christ could not believe such a blasphemy, yet the extremity of so sad a con…

You the Lord's Ransomed (Isaiah 35:9-10) must obtain everlasting joy in Zion. (Isaiah 51:10-11) They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall fly away; and (Hosea 13:14; 1 Corinthians 15:54) they are ransomed from the grave. Let them find in all the Old or Ne…

Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and you perish in the mid-way (Psalm 2:12). Because Christ Jesus is the Son of God, he should be submitted to and embraced with the heartiest love and subjection; for to kiss is a sign of religious adoration (Hosea 13:2), as they kissed the calves,…

I have left me seven thousand in Israel, which have not bowed the knee to Baal. Kissing them (Hosea 13:18). They kiss the calves.

Of this blessing (as I have said) do the Prophets preach in every place, who did not so coldly consider those promises made to the fathers as the wicked Jews did, and as the popish Schoolmen and Sectaries do at this day, but did read them and weigh them with great diligence, and…

Psalm 68 and Ephesians 4: He has led captivity captive. Hosea 13: O death I will be your death, O hell I will be your destruction. So he says here, that through the law he is dead to the law.

For that also is reckoned among the gifts and special blessings of God, when a city abounds with prudent and eloquent personages, who can debate with the adversaries, in the gate, or in the place where need shall require to defend itself by counsel and reason. Now the sum of thi…

And when they do speak, it is not natural to them to speak with a bold, masterly air; but humility disposes them rather to speak trembling. Hosea 13:1. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. They are not apt to assume a…

How is the frame of your hearts altered with the alteration of your condition? So God complains of Israel, Hosea 13. 5, 6. I did know you in the Wilderness, the land of drought; according to their pasture, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted, there…

True it is, God sometimes graunts the requests of those that pray without faith, but his hearing is not in mercie, but in anger and wrath, and is a meanes to execute his judgment upon them. Thus hee gaue the Israelites a King in his wrath, Hos. 13. 11. and so hee gaue them Quail…

(Job 31:26, 27) If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart has been secretly enticed; or my mouth has kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have denied the God that is above. So likewise bowi…

What rioting and banqueting has there been daily in London, many feeding themselves without fear; as if gluttony were not any sin at all? How many have been like fed horses in the city, or like fatted oxen, who as the apostle James speaks, have lived in pleasure and been wanton,…

The King of glory against whom you have rebelled, and who could crush you so easily without any injury to himself, is not only willing to lay aside his anger, but also entreats you to accept of reconciliation; heartily embrace Jesus Christ upon his own terms, and the work will b…

This is the condition of desperate sinners, they keep off Heaven by force; they are self-murderers. Therefore God writes their epitaph upon their grave (Hosea 13:9): O Israel, you have destroyed yourself. 3. Let us then examine whether we put forth this holy violence for Heaven?

"Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness—that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end." And therefore it is said, Hosea 13:5. "I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought."

A gracious soul earnestly desires a free condition in the world, he is sensible he has much work to do, a race to run, and is loath to be clogged or have his foot in the snare of the cares or pleasures of this life. He knows that fullness exposes to wantonness and irreligion (De…

When there were such great distractions that they groped like a blind man, and could not find the way, they said our iniquities are with us, as for our transgressions we know them (Isaiah 59:10-12). When those that speak trembling are little feared, surely there is some offense…

There is a great deal of difference between men poor and rich: when poor, they will seem to put a natural fervency into their prayers; but when rich, they grow cold and careless. Mark what the Lord says, (Hosea 13:6) They were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have…

Paul asked three times that the thorn in the flesh might depart from him; but God gives him sufficient grace. God does not answer us always according to our will, but certainly according to our well-being and profit: many times he will give the blessing in kind, but at other tim…

When we see all this coming from the special love of God to our souls. Otherwise God may give in anger, (Hosea 13:11) I gave them a king in my anger: as he gave the Israelites meat for their lusts. (Isaiah 38:17) You have loved me from the grave; this commends all experiences; m…

God the judge of all the earth will do right, and he lays not on man more than is fitting, that man may not enter into judgment with God (Job 34:23), or quarrel and find fault with him; which man would quickly do, if God's judgment were not just, even sinners themselves being ju…

What (may God say as of Israel) what could I have done more that I have not done? So that man must say, that he has rewarded evil to himself by doing evil, and that his perdition is of himself (Hosea 13:9). Sinners have their option and choice, why then do they complain?

3. Never rest in convictions, till they end in conversion: this is that wherein most men miscarry, they rest in their convictions, and take them for conversion; as if sin seen were therefore forgiven, or as if a sight of the want of grace, were the truth of the work of grace. Th…

But the hope of Israel is not like them — when the disease is most deadly, he then cures; the condition of the sinner most desperate, he then delivers; out of the jaws of Satan and bottom of hell, he then rescues. It's the prerogative he takes to himself: Your destruction, O Isr…

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It is a foolish loss for a person to lose his soul when he himself has a hand in it; is it not folly to give oneself poison? A sinner has his hands dipped in the blood of his own soul (Hosea 13:9): your destruction is from yourself. They lay wait for their own blood (Proverbs 1:…

1. Because when Christ says (John 5:4), "The believer has passed from death" — as it is a curse — "and shall never come to judgment and condemnation," he cannot mean that they have half passed from the curse, and half not. 2. Believers are delivered, in Christ, from the victory,…

So in Christ death has lost law-dominion over the believer. It is against justice and the just covenant between Jehovah and Christ, that we should be forever among the worms and not at length be loosed from the sting and victory of the [reconstructed: grave]: O death, you shall,…

Proof 14. The fourteenth proof urges that those who, when the Gospel and its spiritual light come to them, refuse to believe and are drawn away by other things, are said to love darkness rather than light (John 3:19), to follow lying vanities and forsake their own mercies (Jonah…

And our Fear so far as it is Spiritual, has divine Goodness for its Object, Hos. 3:5. Unless this be that which draws our Hearts to God, and the things of God, in all Pretence of Love to him, men do but Frame Idols to themselves according to their own Understanding, as the Proph…

The Lord has rent the Kingdom of Israel from you this day. Sin breaks the Axletree of Church and State, Hosea 13:1. When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself, but when he offended in Baal he died.

Put up yourself into your scabbard, rest and be still; means that men should put up themselves into a scabbard, and there rest and be still. It will prove that Hosea 13:14, I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death. O death, I will be your pla…

The pricking of the heart is the immediate work of God himself; He keeps that in his own hands to temper the hearts of the sons of men, especially in this kind when it comes to piercing and wounding. Hosea 13:8. You would think it were the stroke of an enemy; I will meet you as…

I spoke to you in your prosperity, says the Lord, but you said, I will not hear (Jeremiah 22:21). According to their pasture, so were they filled, they were filled and their heart was exalted, therefore have they forgotten me (Hosea 13:6). Take heed, lest when you have eaten and…