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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 8: VER. 8.
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.
They make their boast in what they have got, they bless themselves in their way; in Zephan. 1. vers. 9. it is spoken of the very servants of rich covetous men, that seek to get an estate but to their Masters, in a way either ⟨p. 326⟩of violence, or of deceit, They leap upon the threshold (the text saith) They triumph, and leap, and skip in their 1rejoicing that they have circumvenced others, that they have got such and such things to their Masters; much more then will the Masters themselves leap and rejoice in the having their hearts desires filled: They glory in it.
They make their boast in what they have got, they bless themselves in their way; in Zephan. 1. vers. 9. it is spoken of the verie servants of rich covetous men, that seek to get an estate but to their Masters, in a way either ⟨p. 326⟩of violence, or of deceipt, They leap upon the threshold (the text saith) They triumph, and leap, and skip in their 1rejoycing that they have circumvenced others, that they have got such and such things to their Masters; much more then will the Masters themselves leap and rejoyce in the having their hearts desires fill'd: They glorie in it.
- 1Zeph. 1. 9. Opened
And then Sixthly, and that's especially to be observed here, That carnal hearts that get estates in sinful ways,