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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.
Fifthly, There is a curse mingled with every thing thou 1doest enjoy. Though it may be some things are gotten honestly, yet (I say) there is a curse mingled in all things thou doest, it doth venom and poison every thing thou doest. In Zach. 5. 3. there was a flying Roll of twenty Cubits, and the breadth of it ten Cubits: then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth over the whole earth, (for whom?) For every one that stealeth shall be cut off &c. Every bit of meat thou eatest at thy Table thou mayest look upon it as dipped in the curse of God, I have gotten this by deceit, thou wouldest be loth to have every bit of meat rolled up in dirt and so put into thy mouth, but every bit of meat is rolled up in the Curse of God.
Fifthly, There is a curse mingled with every thing thou 1doest enjoy. Though it may be some things are gotten honestly, yet (I say) there is a curse mingled in all things thou doest, it doth venem and poyson every thing thou doest. In Zach. 5. 3. there was a flying Rol of twenty Cubits, and the breadth of it ten Cubics: then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth over the whol earth, (for whom?) For every one that stealeth shall be cut off &c. Everie bit of meat thou eatest at thy Table thou maiest look upon it as dipt in the curse of God, I have gotten this by deceipt, thou wouldest be loth to have everie bit of meat rouled up in dirt and so put into thy mouth, but everie bit of meat is rouled up in the Curse of God.
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