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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 11 › Verse 12: VER. 12.
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.
Ephraim hath beset me with lies, that is, with false wor 1ship, (for that's a lye) with Pretences, they put fair Glosses upon things but all are but lies, he hath beset me with politic shifts of his own.
Ephraim hath beset me with lyes, that is, with false wor 1ship, (for that's a lye) with Pretences, they put fair Glosses upon things but all are but lyes, he hath beset me with politick shifts of his own.
- 1Particular.
These did beset God, yea, and beset the Prophet too, 1for so I find some turn it, they think it's spoken as in the person of the Prophet, the Prophet complaining that he was beset with lies, that they might prejudice his Ministry, that they might do what they could to take off the power of his Ministry in their hearts, they beset him with lies, with false reports of this and the other thing. Upon which one hath that Note. A faithful Divine, a 2Preacher, is nothing else but as it were a Centre to which all lies of falsehood do tend, they all go that way, 'tis a great plot of the Devil to draw his lines, and to let them make the Ministers of God (that God uses as any Instruments of good unto his people) to be as the Centre of them all. Thus Meisnerus in his Comment upon the place.
These did beset God, yea, and beset the Prophet too, 1for so I find some turn it, they think it's spoken as in the person of the Prophet, the Prophet complaining that he was beset with lies, that they might prejudice his Ministry, that they might do what they could to take off the power of his Ministry in their hearts, they beset him with lyes, with false reports of this and the other thing. Upon which one hath that Note. A faithful Divine, a