Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 7:6

6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven , whiles they ly in wait : their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire .

Surely.

Those Luxurious and Drinking Princes, ver. 5.

Do keep close some fire of Ambition, Revenge, or Covetousness, like as a Baker keeps a hot fire within his Oven.

Either against the Life or Estate of some of their fellow Subjects, or it may be as appears ver. 7. against the Life which they seem'd in their Cups to pray for.

He who should watch and prevent mischief, is swallowed up in the day with Feasting and Drunkenness, and sleeps in security all the night, never suspecting the projects of Conspirators.

But when he awakes too late, he seeth all in flames, and past quenching. Sedition and Rebellion is among these a sin as hateful to God, as dangerous to the publick; yet frequently acted by the Usurpers of those dissolute times.

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