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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 3: VER. 3.
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.
Secondly, The thing that is good indefinitely. That is, they will not be ordered by any rule, they care for the good of no body but only to have their own lusts satisfied.
But that which I think is most properly aimed at by this ⟨p. 12⟩phrase, The thing that is good: is, the Worship of God, My Worship: They say, We know Thee, but in the mean time they cast off that good thing, Oh that Good Thing, that which I hold indeed to be the thing that is good. Hence observe:
The true Worship of God is the GOOD Thing by way of excellency. We account our Estates are goods, 1we use to speak in that kind of language, the goods of such a man. Is our Estates our goods? Are they such good things? Oh! what is the Worship of God then? The Worship of God that's the thing that is good by way of excellency above all our goods, that's the good thing that a spiritual heart can prize, that's that which God delights in, and wherein his people enjoy, so much communion with Himself; that's the thing by which God lets out so much good to His People, it's the safety, protection, the blessing of a Kingdom; the purity of Gods Worship where that is all other good things will follow, that's THE Good thing; and it is a sign of a gracious spiritual heart to prize the Worship of God in the purity of it as the good thing, above all good things that a Kingdom is capable of.
- 1Obs. 1.