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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.
First, Observe how this is brought in, in my text, as 1opposite to turning to God; Turn to God, then presently, He is a Merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress. Those men that live in any way of deceit or oppression to get gain to themselves by those ways, these are men that yet have not turned to God; thou hast not turned to Jehovah, thy heart is not turned to him, thy heart is turned to the earth, the earth is thy portion, thou art to look for the things of the earth to be thy portion, it is not God that thou hast chosen, nor turned unto him.
First, Observe how this is brought in, in my text, as 1opposite to turning to God; Turn to God, then presently, He is a Merchant, the ballances of deceipt are in his hand; he loveth to oppress. Those men that live in any way of deceipt or oppression to get gain to themselves by those waies, these are men that yet have not turned to God; thou hast not turned to Jehovah, thy heart is not turned to him, thy heart is turned to the earth, the earth is thy portion, thou art to look for the things of the earth to be thy portion, it is not God that thou hast chosen, nor turned unto him.
- 11. The evil of deceit in trading.1. The evil of deceipt in trading.
Then Secondly, Thou doest certainly not know what 1sin doth mean, that darest venture the least sin for the greatest gain; had God ever enlightened and awakened thy conscience to see what sin doth mean, thou wouldest rather lose all thy estate, and be clothed with rags all thy days, than willingly to commit the least sin, to get the greatest estate. It was a speech of Austin, That there must not be so much as an officious lye, that is, a lye when a man intends no hurt, but good, yet this must not be told, saith he, no not for the saving of the souls of all the world: surely then a lye must not be told to get twelve pence in a bargain, or five shillings, or fifty shillings, or five pounds, it must not be told to save the souls of all the world; Now to tell a lye to deceive others as well as thy self, surely, God hath not yet laid the weight of sin upon your souls, the day is yet to come that you shall know (perhaps to all eternity) what the weight and burden of sin means.