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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.
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And truly my Brethren, seeing that this Scripture doth so by providence come in our way, let me speak thus much to you from it. It is one of the strangest things that ever was in the world, that there should be such strange reports of things that are matters of fact, 1yea, that one Godly man, or company of men should say one thing, and others, that we think Godly men, should say quite contrary, and both in matters of fact; I say, 'tis that which would make men stand amazed as much as ever any thing that fell out in any age, to consider of it; for there is no sin that is more against the ingenuity of a gracious heart, than a deliberate lye, to speak against a mans knowledge, and against a mans conscience, this sin is against the ingenuity of a gracious heart as much as any sin; and yet even such as we think to be godly, and gracious, even reporting so quite cross, what shall we say to this?
And truly my Brethren, seeing that this Scripture doth so by providence come in our way, let me speak thus much to you from it. It is one of the strangest things that ever was in the world, that there should be such strange reports of things that are matters of fact, 1yea, that one Godly man, or company of men should say one thing, and others, that we think Godly men, should say quite contrary, and both in matters of fact; I say, 'tis that which would make men stand amazed as much as ever any thing that fell out in any age, to consider of it; for there is no sin that is more against the ingenuity of a gracious heart, than a deliberate lye, to speak against a mans knowledg, and against a mans conscience, this sin is against the ingenuity of a gracious heart as much as any sin; and yet even such as we think to be godly, and gracious, even reporting so quite cross, what shall we say to this?
- 1(See the Apology of the dissenting Brethren: And the Assembly's Answer to it.)