A77979:316
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 4 › Verse 9
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.
Quest. Yea but it may be you will say, Like people like Priest, one would rather think that God should say, I will make their judgment greater than the judgment of the people, for the sin of the Priests is far greater than the sin of the people.
Answ, 1 To that I answer first, It is true the sin of the Priests is greater than the sin of any of the people, but it is not greater than the sin of the whole Congregation. In Levit. 4. compare verse 3. with verse 13. and you shall find that the same sacrifice that was offered for the sin of the whole Congregation, it is offered for the sin of the Priest, so that the sin of the Priest it is equivalent to the sin of the whole Congregation: So there is a parallel here, like people like Priest, that is, I will deal with the Priests as with the whole Congregation.
Answ, 1 To that I answer first, It is true the sin of the Priests is greater than the sin of any of the people, but it is not greater than the sin of the whol Congregation. In Levit. 4. compare verse 3. with verse 13. and you shal find that the same sacrifice that was offered for the sin of the whol Congregation, it is offered for the sin of the Priest, so that the sin of the Priest it is equivalent to the sin of the whole Congregation: So there is a parallel here, like people like Priest, that is, I will deal with the Priests as with the whol Congregation.
Answ, 2 Yet further for a second answer, As the condition of the person aggravateth the sin, so the condition of the person aggravateth the judgment. It is a greater punishment for a man of an high condition to suffer the same thing that a man that is of a lower condition doth suffer.