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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 › Righteousness, Equity, and Justice.
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And then the third thing is,1 that which Hierom reports of it, and it is in his Comment upon my text, he saith that Hemlock grows up very stiff and full of joints, and at the joints (he saith) it puts forth a stalk, and that doth not only sprout upwards and bear fruit, but downwards to have a root, & he saith that every branch, If it hath but a joint in it will serve instead of a seed, yea, every sprig of it will serve instead of seed; yea, he saith, if any pieces falls to the ground, It will grow up, and so grow up as that it will be very hard to rid the ground of it. And truly thus it doth resemble Injustice, if it be let alone but a little, Oh how it multiplies one to another and spreads through the whole Land quickly.
And then the third thing is,1 that which Hierom reports of it, and it is in his Comment upon my text, he saith that Hemlock grows up very stiff and full of joynts, and at the joynts (he saith) it puts forth a stalk, and that doth not only sprout upwards and bear fruit, but downwards to have a root, & he saith that every branch, If it hath but a joynt in it will serve instead of a seed, yea, every sprig of it will serve instead of seed; yea, he saith, if any pieces falls to the ground, It wil grow up, and so grow up as that it will be very hard to rid the ground of it. And truly thus it doth resemble Injustice, if it be let alone but a little, Oh how it multiplies one to another and spreads through the whol Land quickly.
- 1Hierom in loc.
And Pliny doth observe many other things too, he saith §4that the root of it is hollow, and that's unfit for any use at all;1 and so are the hearts of those that are injust, hollow hearts and unfit for any thing.