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SPIRITUAL WHOREDOM Discovered in a Sermon ON HOSEA 9.1. Rejoyce not, O Israel, for joy, as other people; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God.
CALVIN conjectures that this Prophesie of Hosea, as we now have it (as the rest of the Prophesies) was but the summary or brief heads of certain Sermons, which at several times and upon several occasions were preach't unto the people of Israel and Iudah, collected by himself, and registred for the use and benefit of the Church of God.
This Sermon he conceives begins at my Text, but the di∣stinct time when it was preach't, neither himself nor any other Expositor do hint; That it was before the Babylonian Capti∣vity, is clear from the date of the Prophesie, Chap. 1. Vers. 1.
Certain it is, and that may content us (saith he) that the Pro∣phet doth here bitterly reprove the extream obstinacy and despe∣rate security of the people, who by all the pains and unwearied labours of the Prophets could not be brought to repentance, although their rebellions and apostacy were so visible that all the world might take notice of it.
However their incorrigibleness must not cause the Prophet