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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.
That is, That they might have power to crush their 1Brethren of Judah, they think to strengthen themselves and so seek to make a Covenant with the Assyrians; you have found this charged upon them many times here in this Prophecy of Hosea, 13. 7. 11. and in Hosea, 10. you have this sin of making a Covenant with wicked men, and it is repeated again, and again, to show the heinousness of this sin, in forsaking God, to join with ungodly men.
That is, That they might have power to crush their 1Brethren of Judah, they think to strengthen themselves and so seek to make a Covenant with the Assyrians; you have found this charged upon them many times here in this Prophesie of Hosea, 13. 7. 11. and in Hosea, 10. you have this sin of making a Covenant with wicked men, and it is repeated again, and again, to shew the hainousness of this sin, in forsaking God, to joyn with ungodly men.
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And to teach us this lesson, That when people are guilty 1of a sin, the Prophets of God should beat upon it again, and again. ⟨p. 212⟩I shall not need to speak any further of this, but only so.
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