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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 were abominable as they loved.
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.
Every man or woman is as he loves.1
- 1Expos. 3.
Thirdly, They were abominable as they loved. That which is here translated of the Concrete, I find it may be as well translated of the Abstract, They were abominable as their love: and so it's carried by Interpreters, that is, they were abominable as their Idols were that they did love, and their Idols were called Love in the Abstract; as a man calls his Wife, his Love, so they called their Idols their Love, and they were abominable as their Love was, that is, look how abominable Baal-Peor was, so abominable were they; so the Psalmist saith, that, they that make Idols, are like unto them.
Thirdly, They were abominable as they loved. That which is here translated of the Concrete, I find it may be as well translated of the Abstract, They were abominable as their love: and so it's carried by Interpreters, that is, they were abominable as their Idols were that they did love, and their Idols were call'd Love in the Abstract; as a man cals his Wife, his Love, so they call'd their Idols their Love, and they were abominable as their Love was, that is, look how abominable Baal-Peor was, so abominable were they; so the Psalmist saith, that, they that make Idols, are like unto them.
But fourthly,1 which I think is especially the scope of the holy Ghost here, They were abominable as they love, (though the other may be taken in) this Scripture hath reference to that that you read in