A30572:389
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That those that have been once the people of God must not be suddenly rejected from being Gods people: but when we are about any such thing, ⟨p. 64⟩either to reject any particular man or woman (who have made profession of Religion) from being Gods, or to reject a Church from being Gods; we had need make a stop, we had need pause, we had need examine the matter very well; yea and when we have examined, and are ready to do it, to make a stop again, and to bethink our selves what we do. We must not be too sudden in rejecting those that have been once the people of God. from being the people of God now: It is Gods way you see here.
That those that have been once the people of God must not be suddenly rejected from being Gods people: but when we are about any such thing, ⟨p. 64⟩either to reject any particular man or woman (who have made profession of Religion) from being Gods, or to reject a Church from being Gods; we had need make a stop, we had need pause, we had need examine the matter very well; yea and when we have examined, and are ready to doe it, to make a stop againe, and to bethink our selves what we doe. We must not be too sudden in rejecting those that have been once the people of God. from being the people of God now: It is Gods way you see here.
Many men are too hasty in this point, in rejecting both particular servants of God, and particular Churches from belonging to God, as soon as they see some few things amiss in them, especially if there be any thing gross, presently they are no Churches at all, they are altogether Antichristian, they belong to the Beast; and so while they strike at the Beast, they wound the Lamb. Certainly there is to be acknowledged much of Christ, not only in particular Saints, but in regard of the Church Ordinances of many particular congregations in England: we must take heed therefore of too sudden rejection of them from belonging to God, to be his people in that way of Church fellowship.