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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 12 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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 together with the ten Tribes, with them all, 1all the day long he increaseth lies, that is, he hath new plots, and new devises, and new shifts for himself, he increaseth lies, new opinions, and new reports, so we are to understand the word in the latitude, increaseth lies.
Ephraim together with the ten Tribes, with them all, 1all the day long he encreaseth lyes, that is, he hath new plots, and new devises, and new shifts for himself, he encreaseth lyes, new opinions, and new reports, so we are to understand the word in the latitude, encreaseth lyes.
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First, In matters of Doctrine, there he increaseth lies, 1having forsaken once the Truth: if the truth be once forsaken, men do not know whither they shall go: Grant but one error (we use to say) a thousand will follow, and 2they will multiply abundantly, especially some errors, there are some such breeding lies as if they be granted, there must be a great many others to maintain them. Never was there such an increase of false Doctrine, of lies in that sense, as there is at this day, in Revel. 12. 15. the 3text saith, that when the Dragon could not prevail against the Church, against the woman, by bloody persecutions, (for that's the meaning of it) then saith the text the Dragon cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the floo[…] this was the policy of the Devil, first labouring by violence to prevail against the Church, but that he could not do, and when he could not do that, then he cast w ter out of his mouth like a flood, that it, as Interpre[…] observe, he did labour by a deluge of error and her […]