A77979:1749
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 7 › Verse 2
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.
That I remember their iniquities: the old Latin carries it ⟨p. 649⟩thus, lest they should consider: do not you think that God remembers the sins of your forefathers only, that they were vile and wicked; no, but I also remember the sins that are present before me. But according to the reading of the words in your books is most agreeable to the Original; therefore Luther saith,1 that these words are a reproof of their security then which no evil being worse: the Princes they feel not the judgment yet the principal actors in the wickedness, the common people they suffer much, and yet though they suffer yet attribute their sufferings to any thing rather than to their sins to be the causes of them: the observations.
That I remember their iniquities: the old Latine carries it ⟨p. 649⟩thus, lest they should consider: do not you think that God remembers the sins of your forefathers only, that they were vile and wicked; no, but I also remember the sins that are present before me. But according to the reading of the words in your books is most agreeable to the Original; therefore Luther saith,1 that these words are a reproof of their security then which no evil being worse: the Princes they feel not the judgment yet the principal actors in the wickedness, the common people they suffer much, and yet though they suffer yet attribute their sufferings to any thing rather than to their sins to be the causes of them: the observations.
- 1Luther
That God doth remember the wickedness of people though long since Obs. 1 committed, as we may see in Amalek, God remembers this their wickedness many hundred years after,