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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 8: VER. 8.
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.
Those things that the Prophet tells us of, they are but 1Notions, Imaginations; but in what I have found there's Substance, to have an Estate, and Riches, and Comings-in, there's Substance, I have found substance.
Those things that the Prophet tels us of, they are but 1Notions, Imaginations; but in what I have found there's Substance, to have an Estate, and Riches, and Comings-in, there's Substance, I have found substance.
- 1Expos.
First from this observe, Wicked men will have something 1to say for themselves though their ways be never so foul. The Prophet charges them of very foul things, the Balances of Deceit, and loving to oppress, and other sins before were named. Yet Ephraim [saith] He hath somewhat to say: It's a very hard thing to stop the mouths of wicked men, and especially Rich wicked men; wicked men that prosper in their wicked ways, say what you will you cannot stop their mouths: The work of Conversion is not so much as begun till the mouths of sinners be stopped, till they be so convinced of their evil ways as they have nothing to say for themselves.
First from this observe, Wicked men will have something 1to say for themselves though their waies be never so foul. The Prophet charges them of very foul things, the Ballances of Deceipt, and loving to oppress, and other sins before were named. Yet Ephraim [saith] He hath somewhat to say: It's a very hard thing to stop the mouths of wicked men, and especially Rich wicked men; wicked men that prosper in their wicked waies, say what you wil you cannot stop their mouths: The work of Conversion is not so much as begun till the mouths of sinners be stopt, till they be so convinc'd of their evil waies as they have nothing to say for themselves.