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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.
Yea further, Your sin is greater, because that you continuing §4in your forefathers sin you provoke God more, that God should make use of your forefathers to revenge such a sin as that was and yet you continue in the committing of as great sins as they did commit. That's the meaning: and for further opening of that sin I shall refer you to that that I delivered in the 9. Chapter.
But that their sin was either from the days of Gibeah, or More than the days of Gibeah. From thence the Notes are.
But that their sin was either from the daies of Gibeah, or More than the daies of Gibeah. From thence the Notes are.
First,1 That the same sins continued in from Ancestors are greater than theirs were. We are ready to excuse our sin and say, Why, we do nothing but that our forefathers did. I, but it may be greater than the sins of thy forefathers, because they had not such means. This would answer those that plead for old superstitious vanities:2 Why should we be wiser than our forefathers? But know, that if you continue in their sins, it's worse to you than to them.
- 1Obs. 1.
- 2Use.