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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 › I will drive them out of my house.
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.
I will drive them out of my house.
God cannot endure wickedness in his house,1 neither should we; God accounts it his dishonour to have wickedness and wicked men in his house, and so should we, as in the Church, ungodly men should be driven out of the house of God; we must not make Gods house an Hogs-sty, an unclean place for all Swine to come in,2 but they should be driven out as Christ drave out the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple; yea, and so should all Christians drive out of their families wicked and ungodly servants: Psal. 101. 7. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house (saith David) And he that telleth lies shall not tarry in in his sight. 3It's ⟨p. 274⟩a dishonour for any who make profession of Religion, that though themselves be not scandalous in their own lives, yet there are those in their house that live scandalously, they have as wicked servants in their houses as any; this is a dishonour to Religion: God drives out wickedness out of his house, and do you do so to yours.
God cannot endure wickedness in his house,1