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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 12 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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Certainly if some of our forefathers that were holy and gracious should rise out of their graves, and come to see and hear such things as may be seen and heard in our days, they would stand amazed at it, and they would wonder how it were possible that ever England should be filled with such horrible opinions, and ways as they have been in these latter times, so that now there lies the hope of the Devil, by increase of such lies, to eat out Godliness, and Religion thereby, and this indeed seems to be the most hopeful design, that the Devil hath in these latter times, mens hearts 1are carnal, loose, and sensual, and therefore they are prepared to receive these lies; and hence they multiply apace, because they are prepared to receive them, but yet let none multiply them more than they are, by putting among those lies some truths, By shutting in truths in the midst of them, to make them appear likewise to be lies, and 2to be taken as honest men are when they are gotten by any accident in the company of lude people, they are apprehended 3upon suspicion, merely because they are in their company; and it is a way of the Devil to multiply and increase these falsehoods and lies by shuffling in ⟨p. 206⟩[…] ⟨p. 207⟩[…] ⟨p. 208⟩[…] ⟨p. 209⟩[…] ⟨p. 206⟩some truths among them, and because he could not have them suspected otherwaies they must be taken upon suspicion because they are there among them; let not men gather these lye• together to the end that they may oppose some truths thereby, but as the Prophet speaks, What is the chaff to the wheat? If men will speak of lies let them inveigh against them, and only against them, and make it appear that that's the work of their spirits, merely to oppose them, and not under such a pretence to make other things that yet they cannot make appear to be false, to make them appear to be odious and monstrous, merely by shuffling them together among such horrible and damnable lies. That's for false Doctrine.