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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,1 Yet Gods own Worship is by carnal hearts of men repelled, and cast off as evil, if it suit not their own ends, and designs: The spirits of men rise against it, they will not so much as examine things in any peaceable and quiet way, but by prejudice; because they see it not suitable to their own ways their spirits rise, abominating that which God Himself prises.
Secondly,1 Yet Gods own Worship is by carnal hearts of men repelled, and cast off as evil, if it sute not their own ends, and designs: The spirits of men rise against it, they will not so much as examin things in any peaceable and quiet way, but by prejudice; because they see it not sutable to their own waies their spirits rise, abominating that which God Himself prises.
- 1Obs. 2.
Thirdly,1 Though first men do but only leave God, forsake the thing that is good, yet at length they grow to such a ripeness in sin as they cast it off with abomination; and that's a great deal worse: Merely to neglect that which is good is an evil, but to cast off that which is good by way of abomination, Oh then the sin of a people is grown to an height, then they are near to Judgment indeed, when they cast it off; thus men who heretofore have been very forward in the profession ⟨p. 13⟩of Religion, and seem to love and delight in the thing that is good, but by degrees their hearts were drawn from the ways of God, now they cannot bear the sight of those things to be presented, nor bear the hearing of those things, their hearts rise against any that they see practice them, they now shut their eyes, and stop their ears, and with violence repel the Truth; according to those in