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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?
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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.
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 daies 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.