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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.
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.
From thence the First Note is this, That evil things many times have good names. The truth is, That which is meant 1here, is that which they had got by Oppression and Deceit, and they call it by the name of their Labours: so Covetousness is called by the name of good-husbandry, and following their Callings, and the Art and Mystery of their Callings; Many men think to put off their consciences with good words, It's but the Art of my Calling, and good-husbandry, and the like, in all my labours. Further, observe;
From thence the First Note is this, That evil things many times have good names. The truth is, That which is meant 1here, is that which they had got by Oppression and Deceipt, and they call it by the name of their Labors: so Covetousness is call'd by the name of good-husbandry, and following their Callings, and the Art and Mystery of their Callings; Many men think to put off their consciences with good words, It's but the Art of my Calling, and good-husbandry, and the like, in all my labors. Further, observe;
- 1Obs. 1.
It's very hard to convince any covetous men of their iniquity, 1Rich, covetous men are much conceited in themselves; in Prov. 28. 11. The rich man is wise in his own conceit. You ⟨p. 331⟩shall sometimes see a men that gets riches, and as we say of some when we look upon their wit, we wonder at their wealth; and others when we look upon their wealth, we wonder at their wit to get an estate, they have wit only to get money, but for any thing else they are ignorant, poor, weak men, especially in matters of Religion, as weak as children, and yet they are wise in their own conceits, for they have got that that they see all the world runs after: It's very hard to convince covetous men of their falseness, that they get any thing in a sinful way.