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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 9 › Verse 1 › You will say, How can this be?
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.
Here was one particular aggravation upon Israel that was not among other people,1 and that was this, There was no other people would forsake their gods as Israel had forsaken theirs, Jer. 2. 10. there was never such a thing as for a Land to change their god,2 (the worst people, for Kedar was the worst sort of people, they were a vile people, and yet) go to Kedar and see and search diligently whether any Nation hath ever forsaken their Gods, But you have forsaken Me. And from thence there may be this Note.
- 1Answ, No Nation but Israel forsook their gods.
- 2Jer. 2. 10. explained.Ier. 2. 10. explained.
That to be constant to ill principles is not so great an evil, 1as to be false against good principles. (I say) God accounts it not to be so great an evil for men to be constant to their prin•les though they be evil principles as for men to forsake ⟨p. 149⟩good principles;2 as now if a man hath been brought up all his days in superstition and thinks verily this is the right, certainly this man is not so guilty before God as another that hath been educated in the true worship of God, and hath made profession of the contrary and yet afterward doth apostatize, and backslide: God had rather that men should keep to their principles though they be evil, than entertain good principles and forsake them: There are none so vile in Gods eyes as Apostates, there is not so much sordidness and baseness of spirit in those men that will keep constant to their principles though they be evil as in such as will betray their principles that are good.