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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 8: VER. 8.
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There is no more full and sure sign of a man of the world, of a worldly man than this, That he can think to relieve his conscience in the guilt of the least sin, by the 1enjoyment of all the things of the world that he can set the good of the things of the world against the guilt of sin, that he can put any thing in the world in the balance to down weigh the least guilt of any sins; here is a worldly heart, here's a man of the world, a wretched heart, thou doest bless thy self in a great estate thou g[…] test, ⟨p. 327⟩but hath there been no guilt at all that thou hast contracted by that estate which thou hast got, Thou canst not say but some guiltiness hath been contracted, yea, but this contents thee, there is so much gain comes by it, Oh! thou art a wretched man that canst set the gain in the world to the least guilt that thou hast contracted, Oh! it hath been an ill bargain, riches got by guilt, thou hast made (I say) an ill bargain for thy self, thou knowest not God, knowest not with whom thou hast to deal that canst set any gain by sin for to countervail the evil of that guilt that thou hast committed for the getting of that gain of thine.
There is no more full and sure sign of a man of the world, of a worldlie man than this, That he can think to relieve his conscience in the guilt of the least sin, by the 1enjoyment of all the things of the world that he can set the good of the things of the world against the guilt of sin, that he can put any thing in the world in the ballance to down weigh the least guilt of any sins; here is a worldly heart, here's a man of the world, a wretched heart, thou doest bless thy self in a great estate thou g〈…〉 test, ⟨p. 327⟩but hath there been no guilt at all that thou hast contracted by that estate which thou hast got, Thou canst not say but some guiltiness hath been contracted, yea, but this contents thee, there is so much gain comes by it, Oh! thou art a wretched man that canst set the gain in the world to the least guilt that thou hast contracted, Oh! it hath been an ill bargain, riches got by guilt, thou hast made (I say) an ill bargain for thy self, thou knowest not God, knowest not with whom thou hast to deal that canst set any gain by sin for to countervail the evil of that guilt that thou hast committed for the getting of that gain of thine.