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...faithfulness, and pursuance of God's gracious designs of good to souls, as he saith, Hos. ii. 6, " Therefore I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths." This is love and favour, for it is far better to be pricked with thorns,...

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...then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. " I will go after my lovers, that gave me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink'." Neither did she ever return to her first husband, till she found, by evident experience, that it was...

...corruptions of their nature, they cannot find them. Speaking of his church by his prophet Hosea, he says, " Behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths ; and she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...because of thy riches ; therefore, thus saith the Lord, &c. — Ezek. xxviii. 4 — 7. She said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and...water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil, and my drink, &c. She did not knowthat I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied hersilver and gold; therefore...

...purposes, and divert our feet from the course we have chosen. Thus we read in the prophecies of Hosea: " Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, (hut she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake...

...to God, she had yet gone after other lovers, and had committed adultery with them. " For she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and...wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." Therefore God threatened that he would strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make...

...multiplied her silver and gold." But they ascribed them to her idols. Verse fifth. " For she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and...water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." And verse twelfth. "These are my rewards, that my lovers have given me." For this reason it is that...