God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances

such sins as these are not [Greek or Hebrew], not written, but engraven: they are of the deepest die, and most permanent stain: Hos. 7.15. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. It hath an allusion to men with broken bones; Oh what would they give for a healing Chirurgeon? what price would they give to be free from pain? so these in distress would promise any thing to God for deliverance: but, says the Lord, though I bound them up and cased them, though I strengthened them against the destructive assaults of their enemies, yet still with the highest wickedness and unkindness they imagine mischief against me: the more I did to engage them, the more they have done to dishonour me.

such sins as these are not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not written, but engraven: they are of the deepest die, and most permanent stain: Hos. 7.15. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. It hath an allusion to men with broken bones; Oh what would they give for a healing Chirurgion? what price would they give to be free from pain? so these in distress would promise any thing to God for deliverance: but, says the Lord, though I bound them up and cased them, though I strengthened them against the destructive assaults of their enemies, yet still with the highest wickedness and unkindness they imagine mischief against me: the more I did to engage them, the more they have done to dishonour me.

The people of Israel were charged with their sinning at Gilgal above all other places, Hos. 9.15. All their iniquity is in ⟨p. 35⟩Gilgal. The Hebr. word [Greek or Hebrew] which we render all, signifies summum, praecipuum, i.e. their highest, chiefest, most notorious si was at Gilgal; why there? because there it was they received abundance of mercies. Here was the great circumcision, when the reproach was rolled away, after they had past over Jordan, and arrived to the Land of Canaan,