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IT is an abomination] an horrible and loathsome thing, wherewith the Lord is highly displeased, [for Kings] for great and mighty men, and Magistrates of every degree, [to commit wickedness] to walk in impious, unclean, and unrighteous ways: [for the throne] their honour, and safety, and good estate every way, [is established by justice] made firm, and continued the longer, by their faithful and upright behaviour towards God and their people.

IT is an abomination] an horrible and loathsome thing, wherwith the Lord is highly displeased, [for Kings] for great and mighty men, and Magistrates of euery degree, [to commit wickednesse] to walke in impious, vncleane, and vnrighteous waies: [for the throne] their honour, and safety, and good estate euery way, [is established by iustice] made firme, and continued the longer, by their faithfull and vpright behauiour towards God and their people.

Doct. 1 The greater men be, the more grievous their faults are when they fall into sin.

Doct. 1 The greater men be, the more grieuous their faults are when they fall into sinne.

By this argument doth Hosea exaggerate the offences, and justify the punishments of the Priests of his time. As they ¹were increased (saith he) that is, grown richer, and exalted higher, they rebelled against me, therefore I will change their glory into shame. And Jeremiah, by way of comparison, doth somewhat extenuate the naughtiness of the vulgar sort, to aggravate the wickedness of the nobility, saying, They (this common people) are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way ²