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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 8: VER. 8.
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.
VER. 8.
The watch-man of Ephraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the House of his God.
The watch-man of Ephraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his waies, and hatred in the House of his God.
IN this, and the former Verse God charges (as the cause of much evil in Israel) the false Prophets, but yet through the Peoples sin, for it was through the multitude of their wickedness that they were so guided by those false Prophets, whom they followed in times of their prosperity. But God would have a time wherein they should know ⟨p. 191⟩they were but fools, and the spiritual man but mad. And this was likewise because of their great hatred, the great hatred of the the true Prophets, their spirits were against them, and therefore God gave them up to those that were false: the same argument follows here in the eighth verse, The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
IN this, and the former Verse God charges (as the cause of much evil in Israel) the false Prophets, but yet through the Peoples sin, for it was through the multitude of their wickedness that they were so guided by those false Prophets, whom they followed in times of their prosperity. But God would have a time wherein they should know