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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 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.
The balances of deceit are in his hand. That is (saith a 1Learned Interpreter upon the place) By this that they are in his hand, is intimated a continual and perpetual study and endeavour to deceive, he hath it at hand, and it is in his hand continually. In the forenamed place, Deut. 25. 13. and so on, There men are forbidden to have 2a false weight in their bag; you must not keep a false weight in your house, much less in your hand.
The ballances of deceipt are in his hand. That is (saith a 1Learned Interpreter upon the place) By this that they are in his hand, is intimated a continual and perpetual study and endeavor to deceive, he hath it at hand, and it is in his hand continually. In the forenamed place, Deut. 25. 13. and so on, There men are forbidden to have 2a false weight in their bag; you must not keep a false weight in your house, much less in your hand.
- 13. Innuitur continuum ac perpetuum studium. Meisn. in loc.
- 2Deut. 25. 13. observed.
Or it may be he alludes to those that have a slight of 1hand, to make the balances turn one way, or the other way, so as their Customers shall not perceive it. —And he loveth to oppress.