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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. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 6 › For from Israel was it.
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Their Idolatry was from themselves: It was hard to get them off from their Idolatrous worship, for it was from themselves. Other people worshipped Idolatrous Images, as being deceived, either made to believe that they came from their gods;1 as that wise Town-Clerk of Ephesus, in his grave, sage speech, Acts, 19. 35. saith, their Image came down from Jupiter, or else they were such as were brought from the Temples of other People, whose Original they knew not. But saith God, My People are more sottish than any, for from Israel themselves doth come these their Images that they do worship, they have set them up themselves, they know that the other day they were but pieces of wood, overlaid with Gold and Silver; for their Calves they were such kind of Idols as Israel invented themselves,2 they were not the same as some think with the Egyptian Apis, that Idol, for that was bigger, it was rather a Bullock, and it was a live one, and with several spots and divers things wherein it differed from the Calves that Israel ⟨p. 30⟩worshipped, so that the Calves of Israels worship, it was their own invention. Hence there is these Notes:
Their Idolatry was from themselves: It was hard to get them off from their Idolatrous worship, for it was from themselves. Other people worshiped Idolatrous Images, as being deceived, either made to beleeve that they came from their gods;1 as that wise Town-Cleark of Ephesus, in his grave, sage speech, Acts, 19. 35. saith, their Image came down from Jupiter, or else they were such as were brought from the Temples of other People, whose Original they knew not. But saith God, My People are more sottish than any, for from Israel themselves doth come these their Images that they do worship, they have set them up themselves, they know that the other day they were but pieces of wood, overlaid with Gold and Silver; for their Calves they were such kind of Idols as Israel invented themselves,