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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 15: VER. 15.
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. 15.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them.
WHAT this Gilgal was I opened in the 4th Chapter at the 15. Verse,1 it was a very famous place for many remarkable things:2 Stones were set up in remembrance of so great a mercy in coming over Jordan, and there was the first Passover that ever they had, and there they were circumcised, and the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you, from whence it had the name; they were not circumcised in all that time in the Wilderness, from whence it was called Gilgal, because the reproach was rolled away; I showed abundance of mercy to them in Gilgal, there they eat the fruit of the Land, and there the reproach was rolled away,3 and the monument of my great mercy in bringing them over Jordan; but now they have turned this place to the most abominable place in the Country, for because there were such great things done in Gilgal, they thought that it was a holy place, and therefore they might justify their superstitious ways, though God afterwards did choose another place for his Worship, yet they thought to sacrifice and worship in Gilgal, they thought it might be justified, because it was a place where such great things were done. Now saith God, I never intended that, all their wickedness is in Gilgal.