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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 7: VER. 7.
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's the scope of the Prophet: We may exhort long 1enough saith he, yet so long as their hearts are covetous, and set upon their way of getting gain, they will never regard what I say, they will not turn to God, they will not hear of turning to God, but will turn a deaf ear rather. This indeed is the guise of men that have great dealings in the world, and their hearts are set upon their 2riches, let there be the most glorious Truths set before them that ever were, yet they are as nothing to them: we read in Luke 16. of Christ himself preaching before a company of men, and some of them being very covetous, mark what the Text saith, vers. 14. The Pharisees also who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him, they blew their noses at him, so the word *signifies, they scorned him. Christ he spake of Excellent and Divine Mysteries, and there were some of his Auditors that had dealings in the world, and great estates, and they scorned at whatsoever he spake; Tell us of such things as these are! tell us of ways of gain, how we may come to enrich our selves: ⟨p. 310⟩This seemed to be the disposition of some of the Auditors of Hosea at this time, therefore saith he, He is a Merchant.
That's the scope of the Prophet: We may exhort long 1enough saith he, yet so long as their hearts are covetous, and set upon their way of getting gain, they will never regard what I say, they will not turn to God, they will not hear of turning to God, but will turn a deaf ear rather. This indeed is the guize of men that have great dealings in the world, and their hearts are set upon their 2riches, let there be the most glorious Truths set before them that ever were, yet they are as nothing to them: we reade in