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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 › With my God.
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.
With my God.
It must needs be a great grief to those who have the true knowledge of God,1 and indeed have interest in him, to see others who are false to maintain that which is evil; and yet to pretend to God, as if they were for God, and for the glory of God, and to set up God as much as any. The Prophet seems to speak in grief and trouble, these Watch-men of Ephraim, those among the ten Tribes, they will pretend to be for God, to be for my God.
It must needs be a great grief to those who have the true knowledg of God,1 and indeed have interest in him, to see others who are false to maintain that which is evil; and yet to pretend to God, as if they were for God, and for the glory of God, and to set up God as much as any. The Prophet seems to speak in grief and trouble, these Watch-men of Ephraim, those among the ten Tribes, they will pretend to be for God, to be for my God.
- 1Obs. 5.
Vatablus hath a further Note upon this,1 (saith he) Ephraim made to himself a Watch-man, and would hear him, and would hear them together with his God, like mad-men would hear them together with God, and so they would worship Idols and God too, they would seem to respect the true Prophets and false Prophet, both which is a mere madness, (thus he.)