Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 6:7

7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me .

I told them by my Prophets what I requir'd of them by Covenant, but I could not obtain it, they regarded not what I said.

Or, like Adam: Some take it for a proper Name, and so refer it unto the first M[illegible: 1 letter]n, and his breaking Covenant; and for ought I see, it may well enough refer to him, who forgot, or slighted the threat; who judged of what he did, by what it appear'd, as a small matter; and so these forget and slight my threats, and judge of the place where, and the persons by whom, and the times when Sacrifices are to be offer'd as no Material circumstances, and therefore do choose what places they please, and appoint what Priest liketh them best to offer, or else transgress the Covenant, as if it were the Covenant of a man like themselves.

The Law of their God which directed and encouraged their obedience, and which threatned their disobedience and cursed it.

In that very place, the good Land which by Covenant I gave them, they have broken my Covenant, or in the things in which they thought they kept Covenant, in their Sacrifices, and observing of Feasts, in these things they transgress the Covenant.

Very frowardly, and with wilful resolutions perverted my Law; their transgressing was a design'd perfidiousness. I told them obedience, not sacrifice; they reply Sacrifice, and stop there, they give no Obedience, though they offer many Sacrifices.

Marginal references: Or, Adam.; chap. 8.1.