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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.
Polanus upon the text compares that Town in Germany, 1[Wittenberg] to this Gilgal. Those places where the Lord hath been more gracious to people, the Devil seeks to corrupt those places most of all; as in Wittenberg was the beginning of Reformation by the means of Luther, and now (saith he) the Devil hath made it the Theatre of divers Heresies, and still makes it more and more; that very place which was a place of Gods mercy to the Country: so here, that place that was the greatest place of mercy,2 is here the greatest place of wickedness; the Devil envies it so much the more, and all their wickedness is here.
Polanus upon the text compares that Town in Germany, 1[Wittenberg] to this Gilgal. Those places where the Lord hath been more gracious to people, the Devil seeks to corrupt those places most of all; as in Wittenberg was the beginning of Reformation by the means of Luther, and now (saith he) the Devil hath made it the Theater of divers Heresies, and still makes it more and more; that very place which was a place of Gods mercy to the Country: so here, that place that was the greatest place of mercy,2 is here the greatest place of wickedness; the Devil envies it so much the more, and all their wickedness is here.
- 1Wittebergan ob Reformationis inititū per Lutherū Sathanus haeresium Theatrum fecit. Pol. in loc.Wittebergan ob Reformationis inititū per Lutherū Sathanus haeresium Theatrum fecit. Pol. in loc.
- 2See Wilkingson against the Familists; print. Lon. 1579. pag. 3. Reporting the like of Colchester in Essex. And in Fox Act. Mon. 1. edit. p. 606. A. not untruly