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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 › All their wickedness.
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.
Above all sins, 1the sin of Idolatry is that that God looks upon as the great wickedness for which he doth hate and abhor a people. Because in that sin men think by their own ways of worship to make God amends for their wicked ways, and present their own ways of worship, to justify themselves in all other kind of wickedness.
Above all sins, 1the sin of Idolatry is that that God looks upon as the great wickedness for which he doth hate and abhor a people. Because in that sin men think by their own waies of worship to make God amends for their wicked waies, and present their own waies of worship, to justifie themselves in all other kind of wickedness.
- 1Obs. 1.
And again:1 For men to abuse that wherein God shows mercy: For them to take advantage or occasion by that to turn it into sin against God, this is that which God hates. For there was much mercy they met withal at Gilgal, and they made Gods mercy an occasion to their wickedness. To make that which should engage us to God to be an occasion of wickedness against God this is abominable in Gods eyes: As you read in the Law,2 that you must not seethe a Kid in his mothers milk; that which is the milk to preserve the Kid, that must not be a means for a second death, to seethe or boil it in saith God, that's unnatural, and but cruelty; so for us to deal with God to take those things that should be a means to engage our hearts further to God to be occasion of further sinning against God, that's abominable; there saith God, I hated them.
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