A77979:1929
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 15
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.
They imagine mischief.
They imagin mischief.
1The word signifies, all kinds of evil, and to imagine mischief is in some regard worse than to practice it; it was not a weakness or sin of infirmity in the•• for it was an imagined mischief, it was a most vile provoking sin, for it did aim at the mischieving of God Himself: they who live in sin, live as if they were born for nothing but to do mischief to God.
1The word signifies, al kinds of evil, and to imagin mischief is in som regard worse than to practice it; it was not a weakness or sin of infirmity in the•• for it was an imagined mischief, it was a most vile provoking sin, for it did aim at the mischieving of God Himself: they who live in sin, live as if they were born for nothing but to do mischief to God.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
Quest. What was this mischief they imagined against God?