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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 11 › Verse 12: VER. 12.
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Though examples of evil in others are no excuses, yet where 1there is no such temptation, the sin is so much the greater. That's the Note from it. If indeed Israel could have said thus, You indeed complain of our false worship, Who doth otherwise? Doth not Judah do so aswell as we? do not they follow the same course aswell as we? we took our example from them. No, Israel could not say so, this would not have wholly excused, but it might somewhat have lessened, evil examples do somewhat lessen, but not excuse wholly. Yet when there is no examples at all, but men take up evil of themselves, and are rather examples to others: this is a great aggravation of their sin. Again, Note, That,
Though examples of evil in others are no excuses, yet where 1there is no such temptation, the sin is so much the greater. That's the Note from it. If indeed Israel could have said thus, You indeed complain of our false worship, Who doth otherwise? Doth not Judah do so aswel as we? do not they follow the same course aswel as we? we took our example from them. No, Israel could not say so, this would not have wholly excused, but it might somewhat have lessened, evil examples do somewhat lessen, but not excuse wholly. Yet when there is no examples at all, but men take up evil of themselves, and are rather examples to others: this is a great aggravation of their sin. Again, Note, That,
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To continue in a false way of Worship when there is a right 1way held forth by others, this makes the sin the greater. It's true, if we could say, we have been all our days brought up in this way, we never knew no better, we saw none that held forth any other to us; this might have been somewhat. But they could not say so, for Judah yet ruled with God, Judah held forth the right way of Worship according to the mind of God, and therefore the sin of Israel is here aggravated.