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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.
Again, If wicked men cannot be accused by other men, then 1they care not. If they can carry it so closely that men shall not see it, then they bless themselves, all is well and fair, if they have cunningly contrived their wickedness that men cannot charge them, Who shall find iniquity in me, that were sin? Well though you think your selves well enough because men cannot accuse you and find out your sin, yet God can find it out, Deut. 32. 33. be sure your iniquity will find you out, God hath his time to find out iniquity, that will be sin to you, and there is much between God and your consciences, though men cannot charge you. Oh! but if so be, that God would but discover unto the world, unto all your neighbours what he is able to charge you of, how loathsome would many of you appear to your neighbours! how unfit would you be to trade with men, or who would meddle with you! if (I say) God should open to the world all that he is able to charge you of. Now certainly your condition is not the better because it is kept so secretly that men cannot charge you, but perhaps it would be better if they could, for it might bring you sooner to be humbled for ⟨p. 333⟩it; you think now because you have only to deal with God you can do well enough with him: Do you think it such a matter to deal with the infinite, holy, and glorious God! Indeed Servants would be troubled if their Masters should know their deceit and cozening; but if a little child knew it they care not for that; so men 2think it is no matter for the knowledge of God, but they are loth that men should know it, that will bring shame and disgrace unto them; Oh! carnal, wicked, Atheistical heart that canst not be satisfied if men know the evil, but can be satisfied well enough though God knows it!
Again, If wicked men cannot be accused by other men, then 1they care not. If they can carry it so closely that men shall not see it, then they bless themselves, all is well and fair, if they have cunningly contrived their wickedness that men cannot charge them, Who shall find iniquity in me, that were sin? Well though you think your selves wel enough because men cannot accuse you and find out your sin, yet God can find it out,