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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
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.
Because of the multitude of thine iniquities, and thy great hatred.
If you understand it of the true Prophets, the sense will run thus, You shall know in the time of your visitation, whether they were mad men and fools or no; it was upon the multitude of your iniquity and great hatred that you accounted them so, to be such fools and mad-men before, it was because of the Malignity of your spirits and the hatred against the right ways of God; you had many exceptions against them, but the truth is, you saw nothing, but the Malignity of your hearts lay at the bottom, you accounted them fools and mad-men because of the multitude of your iniquities. Men who are not so able to judg of things sometimes in controversy, yet they may have this rule to help them to judg of Ministers and of their cause, (who they are that are most like to be in the truth) by this rule,
If you understand it of the true Prophets, the sense will run thus, You shall know in the time of your visitation, whether they were mad men and fools or no; it was upon the multitude of your iniquity and great hatred that you accounted them so, to be such fools and mad-men before, it was because of the Malignity of your spirits and the hatred against the right waies of God; you had many exceptions against them, but the truth is, you saw nothing, but the Malignity of your hearts lay at the bottom, you accounted them fools and mad-men because of the multitude of your iniquities. Men who are not so able to judg of things sometimes in controversie, yet they may have this rule to help them to judg of Ministers and of their cause, (who they are that are most like to be in the truth) by this rule,