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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.
Fourthly, by inventing new ones they come to increase 1and multiply, because such and such falsehoods will not do the feat, more shall then be added to them.
Fourthly, by inventing new ones they come to encrease 1and multiply, because such and such falshoods will not do the feat, more shall then be added to them.
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Fifthly, they increase and multiply, by maintaining 1lies by lies, as if men be engaged once in a business, they must defend themselves; If once they have misreported a thing, there's no help for it, but now it must be defended one way or other, somewhat must be done to defend it; as 'tis many times so in your servants, a Servant 2hath done a thing amiss, well, this Servant seeks to cover it by a lye, and when once he hath told one, he must tell a great many more to defend that one; and thus it is with men.
Fifthly, they encrease and multiply, by maintaining 1lyes by lyes, as if men be engaged once in a business, they must defend themselves; If once they have misreported a thing, there's no help for it, but now it must be defended one way or other, somewhat must be done to defend it; as 'tis many times so in your servants, a Servant 2hath done a thing amiss, well, this Servant seeks to cover it by a lye, and when once he hath told one, he must tell a great many more to defend that one; and thus it is with men.