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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
But it's rather I think to be taken Pre than otherwise,1 i.e. Your sin is more than the days of Gibeah, it's greater, what ever you think of your sin, you think you worship and serve God. Yet the truth is, was that sin horrible that a whole City should come together to force a Levites Concubine till she was dead at the door, was that a horrible sin? Yea, ⟨p. 419⟩and was it horrible for them to stand to defend it?2 Your sin is greater.
But it's rather I think to be taken Pre than otherwise,1 i.e. Your sin is more than the daies of Gibeah, it's greater, what ever you think of your sin, you think you worship and serve God. Yet the truth is, was that sin horrible that a whol City should come together to force a Levites Concubine till she was dead at the door, was that a horrible sin? Yea, ⟨p. 419⟩and was it horrible for them to stand to defend it?2 Your sin is greater.
- 1Expos. 2. Pre preferred.
- 2Confirmed
Your sin is greater; why? for first, That was but one §1particular act, it was all done in one night; but you go on in a constant settled way.