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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.
Why, Can God be deceived?1
- 1Quest. Answ.
No; But they did what lay in them to deceive him, if it were possible that he should be deceived they would deceive God. No marvel though men do deceive men so much as they do; many that are of upright hearts they wonder when they hear of the falseness of mens spirits that they can be so. No marvel (I say) when as God himself complains of being deceived by them, that is, They are so false, and do so beset God with lies, that if it were possible he himself should be deceived. That's the first Note.
No; But they did what lay in them to deceive him, if it were possible that he should be deceived they would deceive God. No mervail though men do deceive men so much as they do; many that are of upright hearts they wonder when they hear of the falsness of mens spirits that they can be so. No mervail (I say) when as God himself complains of being deceived by them, that is, They are so false, and do so beset God with lyes, that if it were possible he himself should be deceived. That's the first Note.
And then Secondly, As it was here with this people besetting God with lies, Thus many do compass and beset 1businesses, the businesses and affairs that they manage they beset them with lies, that's thus, They plot with themselves how they may handsomely contrive a company of lies together, by a handsome putting of them together, that so they may beset mens understandings; there is such a cunning abroad in the world (I say) to seek to beset the understandings of men, so as men shall not