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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 10 › They went to BAAL-PEOR.
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.
Many loathsome and obscene things are reported concerning this Baal-Peor, 1(this god that was the god of the (Moabites) that is unfit for chaste ears to hear, therefore we shall not mention such things; Much filthiness was committed in the worship of this their Baal-Peor, and yet (saith God) notwithstanding all my love to their fore-fathers, whereby they might have drawn an argument that they should have had blessings upon themselves, if they had continued in the ways of their forefathers, yet they went from me & went to Baal-Peor. From whence the Notes are:
Many loathsom and obscene things are reported concerning this Baal-Peor, 1(this god that was the god of the (Moabites) that is unfit for chast ears to hear, therefore we shall not mention such things; Much filthiness was committed in the worship of this their Baal-Peor, and yet (saith God) notwithstanding all my love to their fore-fathers, whereby they might have drawn an argument that they should have had blessings upon themselves, if they had continued in the waies of their forefathers, yet they went from me & went to Baal-Peor. From whence the Notes are:
- 1Baal-Peor Deus apertionis, indix interpret. nom. vulg. lat. apud latinos priapus vid. Hier. in loc. ne• non Drusium.
First,1 The more shameful any thing is, the more abominable is it to forsake God: It's an abominable thing to forsake God, for the gaining of Heaven and Earth (if it could be gained by it) but for to forsake God for a Baal-Peor, God takes this •ll: (but that we met with before.)
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