John Trapp on Amos 2:12
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Amos2:12
Verſe 12. But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink] Opponit jam Propheta peſſimam gratiam &c. ſaith Gualther. Here was the ill requitall they made the Lord for all his benefits; they corrupted his young Nazarites (as Buzzards ſnatch up yong lapwings) and ſilenced his Prophets, or enjoyned them at leaſt to meddle with toothleſſe truths only, to preach placentia: threatening them if they did otherwiſe (for ſo the Original importeth) that ſo they might ſin without controule, and go to hell without hinderance. This God heavily here complaines of, as an horrible Ingratitude. To render good for evill is divine, good for good is humane: evill for evill is brutiſh, but evill for good is diveliſh.
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