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John Trapp on Hosea 7:6

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Hosea7:6

Verſ. 6. For they have made ready their hearts like an oven.] As an oven red hot is ready to bake whatſoever is caſt into it, ſo are wicked mens hearts, heated from hell,Ad male cogitandum. Pagnin. ad peſſima facinora Tigur. prepared for any evil purpoſe or practiſe that the devil ſhall ſuggeſt: but eſpecially to lie in wait for blood, and to hunt every man his brother with a net, Mic. 7.2. David complains of ſome that lay in wait for his ſoul, Pſal. 59.3. that ſatanically hated him, Pſal. 38.20. and 7.13. and 109.4, 6, 20, 29. that ſought his ſoul to deſtroy it, not his life onely but his ſoul too; as that monſter of Millain did, that made his adverſary firſt forſwear Chriſt, (in hope of life) and then ſtabbing him to the heart ſaid,Bodin. de Rep. Now go thy wayes ſoul and body to the devil: and as the Papiſts dealt by John Huſſe, and Hierome of Prague, to whom they denied a confeſſour, which he required after the manner of thoſe times, to fit him for heaven; and for John Huſſe, Act. & Mon. after they had burnt him, how deſpitefully did they beat his heart (which was left untoucht by the fire) with their ſtaves: Beſides, that the Biſhops when they put the tripple crown of paper (painted with ugly devils on it) on his head, they ſaid, Now we commit thy ſoul to the devil. Did not theſe mens hearts burn like an oven with helliſh rage and cruelty?

their baker ſleepeth all the night,] Concoquens illa, ſcilicet corda, ſo Vatablus; He that concocteth or worketh their hearts, that is the devil (as ſome interpret it) or evil-concupiſcence, as others, Tota nocte protrahitur furor eorum, ſo the Chaldee; their rage is deferred or drawn out to the length all night long, till in the morning, i. e. at a convenient ſeaſon it break out and beſtirs it ſelf. A metaphor from a baker, who caſting fire into the oven with good ſtore of laſting fuel, lets it burn all night and ſleeps ſecurely; as knowing that he ſhall find it through hot in the morning. Thoſe ſcorners in the former verſe, by being over-familiar with their drunken king, come not onely to ſlight him for his baſe behaviours, but alſo to conſpire againſt him, and to plot his death; wherein their heart is the oven, ambition the fire, treaſon the flame of that fire, Satan that old manſlayer the baker; who, though he make as if he ſlept all night, yet by morning he hath ſet his agents the traitours awork (either by ſecret treacheries or open ſeditions) to do as in the next verſe, and as is to be ſeen, 2 Kin. 15.

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