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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth 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 eighth, ninth, & tenth 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, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 4: VER. 4.
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.
They have spoken words.
THEY are convinced of their sin,1 that they have not feared God, they cry out of their misery, what shall a King do to them? But mark what follows? this follows upon it, they were not gained to God ever a whit the more, But they have spoken Words, swearing falsely, in making a Covenant.
THEY are convinced of their sin,1 that they have not feared God, they cry out of their misery, what shall a King do to them? But mark what follows? this follows upon it, they were not gain'd to God ever a whit the more, But they have spoken Words, swearing falsly, in making a Covenant.
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When they are taken off from their hopes one way,1 see how they set upon another.2 Luther upon those words, saith: it's an Hebraism; they have anxiously consulted. It's the way of the Hebrews so to express an anxious consultation, and for that he quotes that place in Isa. 8. 10. Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught &c. So then the meaning would be this:3