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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.
In all my labours] That is, In all that I get by my labours.
In all my labors] That is, In all that I get by my labors.
They shall not find in me that that is sin] That is, Let them 1search they shall not find in me that that is; No, as if they should say, Labhor what you say, To oppress, cheat, and cozen, Who can prove it? let any man prove it if he can, that I do cheat, or get any thing in a false way, let any 2man dare to come and say it; Is there any Law that can take hold of me? They shall not find iniquity in me; though there be some little matter, yet there's not any 3great matter, not any thing that the Law of the Land can 4take hold of me; and if my way be such as no man can take advantage against me by the Law, why should I be thus condemned and cried out of as I am. That's the meaning of these words, In all my labours.
They shall not find in me that that is sin] That is, Let them 1search they shal not find in me that that is; No, as if they should say, Labhor what you say, To oppress, cheat, and cozen, Who can prove it? let any man prove it if he can, that I do cheat, or get any thing in a false way, let any 2man dare to come and say it; Is there any Law that can take hold of me? They shall not find iniquity in me; though there be some little matter, yet there's not any 3