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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.
Eighthly, know that God will avenge such things, it may be the poor man that thou oppressest in thy trading 1he cannot right himself upon thee, because a bargain is a bargain (you will say) yea, but God will come over with the bargain again; it may be you have done with him in your bargain, but God hath not done with you.
Eightly, know that God will avenge such things, it may be the poor man that thou oppressest in thy trading 1he cannot right himself upon thee, because a bargain is a bargain (you will say) yea, but God will come over with the bargain again; it may be you have done with him in your bargain, but God hath not done with you.
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You will say to him, You saw what it was, and you ⟨p. 319⟩bought the thing of me as it was, and I have nothing to 1say to you; but God hath much to say to you in this, mark those two Scriptures, Micah, 6. 11. the Lord having shown what he did require, that men should be just in their ways, now saith the text in ver. 11. Shall I account them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? for the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceit full in their mouth; therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee. Oh! when God comes to smite thee, he will make thee sick to purpose: sickness to such men as have defiled consciences in their trading is dreadful sickness indeed, as if God should say, You shall have not