A30574:1616
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 15 › Because of your great wickedness.
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.
The word is,1 Because of the wickedness of your wickedness, so the Hebrews express the superlative degree, by a genitive case, the evil of the evil, the wickedness of the wickedness. From whence observe,
The word is,1 Because of the wickedness of your wickedness, so the Hebrews express the suparlative degree, by a genetive case, the evil of the evil, the wickedness of the wickedness. From whence observe,
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Other sins are great sins, 1but this of false worship indeed is THE great sin that God is provoked against a people for. Whence, let us not make light account of the Worship of God, for how little soever Gods Worship is in our eyes, yet it is a great matter in Gods eyes, and though you think that the sins against God in the matter of his Worship be but small, yet God saith, it is the great wickedness, it is the wickedness of wickedness: And great wickedness it may be called not only in respect of the nature of it, but from many aggravations, and long continuance in it, notwithstanding all their means.
Other sins are great sins, 1but this of false worship indeed is THE great sin that God is provoked against a people for. Whence, let us not make light account of the Worship of God, for how little soever Gods Worship is in our eyes, yet it is a great matter in Gods eyes, and though you think that the sins against God in the matter of his Worship be but small, yet God saith, it is the great wickedness, it is the wickedness of wickedness: And great wickedness it may be call'd not only in respect of the nature of it, but from many aggravations, and long continuance in it, notwithstanding all their means.