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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.
Yea, Fourthly, Men notoriously guilty, may yet in words 1at least profess what they are guilty of, to be an abominable thing. Who shall find iniquity in me, that were sin? If I should be false that were a very horrible and vile thing. Come to all trades-men one after another, and tell them of cheating, and cozening, and deceiving; they will scorn your words, it were a wicked thing, one were unworthy to live: How often Trades men when they have a mind to ⟨p. 332⟩cheat, will profess, That if they should cozen and cheat, they were unworthy to trade any more? Oh! what cauterized Consciences have many men that give up themselves to gain, that make all their Godliness to consist in gain, that make Mammon their God, that will go so directly against their consciences. Luther renders it, God 2forbid that I should be found wicked in my actions. Oh! many that have much guiltiness upon them, will clap their hands upon their breasts, and when you charge them, you have cheated and cozened us, Oh! God forbid that I should do so; and yet their consciences will tell them that they have done so, and will be ready to take their oaths, and swear, and use such curses that they never did such a thing, or never had such a thing; and when their Books are false, will sware that they are true.
Yea, Fourthly, Men notoriously guilty, may yet in words 1at least profess what they are guilty of, to be an abominable thing. Who shall find iniquity in me, that were sin? If I should be false that were a very horrible and vile thing. Come to all trades-men one after another, and tel them of cheating, and cozening, and deceiving; they will scorn your words, it were a wicked thing, one were unworthy to live: How often Trades men when they have a mind to ⟨p. 332⟩cheat, will profess, That if they should cozen and cheat, they were unworthy to trade any more? Oh! what cauterized Consciences have many men that give up themselves to gain, that make all their Godliness to consist in gain, that make Mamon their God, that will go so directly against their consciences. Luther renders it, God