A77979:1643
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › Verse 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.
Object. But may not this seem to be an excusing or diminution of their sin, to say, They like men, (implying the common frailty of humane nature) have transgressed?
1No, 'tis rather an aggravation of their sin. Therefore the word here translated Men, is used for man in his corrupt estate, for weak men, frail men, not men at their strength, but weakness, and so distinct from that which signifies, generous and strenuous men; and so the comparison is not only between God and man, but between the several degrees of men.
1No, 'tis rather an aggrav•tion of their sin. Therfore the word here translated Men, is used for man in his corrupt estate, for weak men, frail men, not men at their strength, but weakness, and so distinct from that which signifies, generous and strenuous men; and so the comparison is not only between God and man, but between the several degrees of men.
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1Or thus: They have transgressed my Covenant like men. That is, not like my people. Saints that are of my Church, they have not transgressed my Covenant so. Their ways have been the ways of ordinary men, and as such they have transgressed my Covenant. The two last senses are principally meant here.