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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 13 › Verse 2: VER. 2.
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 further, there's this in it, That when a man hath 1sinned against God, one sin cannot be maintained without another, one sin calls to another to help it, and maintain it. As now, you find it ordinarily when a man hath done wrong to another man, he knows not how to carry it out, but by doing him more wrong, to crush him if he can: And so there's divers other sins that have many sins depending upon them, if a man be engaged in a business that is sinful, that he might carry out his business, a great many other sins he must commit, and so comes to fall off more and more.
Yea further, there's this in it, That when a man hath 1sin'd against God, one sin cannot be maintain'd without another, one sin calls to another to help it, and maintain it. As now, you find it ordinarily when a man hath done wrong to another man, he knows not how to carry it out, but by doing him more wrong, to crush him if he can: And so there's divers other sins that have many sins depending upon them, if a man be engaged in a business that is sinful, that he might carry out his business, a great many other sins he must commit, and so comes to fall off more and more.
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Yea further, The pride of mens hearts is such, as when they 1are once got into an evil way, it's a mighty difficult thing to keep them from not justifying their evil: men love to justify what they have done; when they have sinned, they will grow more resolute and violent, that all people might think that they have not the least kind of recoil in their hearts, you think many times when you see men mighty strong and violent in an evil way, you think surely they are 2