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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.
All their wickedness.] That is, the chief wickedness, their Superstition and Idolatry is the chief and the great wickedness that provokes God against a people; not only because of the presumption in it, but because it's an Inlet to all other kind of wickedness. Hence observe:
1. Where there is false worship in any place all manner of wickedness follows. And people do most stick unto their superstitious ways more than to any thing, and therefore that's the chief wickedness, yea and they think to satisfy God with those ways for their other sins, All their wickedness is there.
1. Where there is false worship in any place all manner of wickedness follows. And people do most stick unto their superstitious waies more than to any thing, and therefore that's the chief wickedness, yea and they think to satisfie God with those waies for their other sins, All their wickedness is there.
A further Note from hence is,1 That to sin in face of mercies, where there are the Testimony of Gods abundant mercies, that is very abominable to God. That's a great aggravation of sin, to sin in the face of the testimonies of the mercies of God, what, where so much mercy, yet here wicked and abominable? Doth God fill thy family, thy chamber, thy closet, thy bed, thy shop with the Testimonies of his mercy? Take heed how thou sinnest there where there are abundant Testimonies of Gods mercy to witness against thee, and to aggravate thy sin.
- 1Obs. 2.