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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.
A Sixth Note is, A carnal heart lessens his sins that he 1commits.
- 1Obs. 6.
Indeed the words may carry it, Who shall find iniquity in me? If they could find it I would acknowledge it to be a great sin. But I rather take it thus; Who shall find iniquity in me that were any great matter? Both these ways I find Interpreters carry it. It is but a little over-reaching, a little craft and cunning, the matter is not great. Well, that which thou accountest little, the Lord will account great another day, the over reaching thy brother, the defrauding thy brother, though it be but a slight of hand, God will find it to be a great matter one day, if God were but humbling thy heart, and doing good to thy soul, Thou wouldest rather aggravate thy sin, that's in▪ the way of a true Convert, he labours rather to aggravate 1his sin, to bring all the circumstances he can to make his sin heavy upon his soul: Oh! I find I cannot get my heart to break for my sin, I cannot apprehend the evil of my sin as I would in the greatness of it, and therefore, Oh! that God would help me to see the greatness of it; he studies all the circumstances that he can to make his sin great in his own eyes: but now a heart that is not wrought upon to a work of Repentance, all that he labours for, it is to lessen his sin, and to have all the reasonings ⟨p. 334⟩that he can in a way of diminution of his sin; Oh! this is an ill sign.
Indeed the words may carry it, Who shall find iniquity in me? If they could find it I would acknowledg it to be a great sin. But I rather take it thus; Who shall find iniquity in me that were any great matter? Both these waies I find Interpreters carry it. It is but a little over-reaching, a little craft and cunning, the matter is not great. Well, that which thou accountest little, the Lord will account great another day, the over reaching thy brother, the defrauding thy borther, though it be but a slight of hand, God will find it to be a great matter one day, if God were but humbling thy heart, and doing good to thy soul, Thou wouldest rather aggravate thy sin, that's in the way of a true Convert, he labors rather to aggravate