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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 4 › They set up Kings, but not by me
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The Answer is,1 That they continuing and retaining the Government of Jeroboam upon the same ground their progenitors first raised it, are guilty of their sins. Children going on in the way of their parents,2 contract the guilt of their parents sin upon them.
- 1Object.
- 2R. Kimc. ap Merc. in lo.R. Kimc. ap Merc. in loe.
And Mercer upon this place quotes an Hebrew,1 David Kimchi: That the people now when they saw what Jeroboam and his successors did, that they would keep them from going to Jerusalem before the Lord, and when they saw that he made them Idols, and so forsook Gods true Worship, they (saith the Hebrew Doctor) should have driven him from the Kingdom, that was his opinion: but merely for Religion it cannot be, except the Law of the Country will bear them out in it; any farther than the Law of a State, the Civil Law will bear men out in it: and therefore War, it is not merely undertaken for maintaining Religion immediately, but for maintaining those Laws by which Religion is established, the Civil Right ⟨p. 21⟩that men have to the practice of their Religion: And so Wars may be undertaken.2 If it were in a place indeed where the Law of the Kingdom were utterly against Religion, could not there be justified, except those that had power likewise for the altering those Laws, should alter them, and then take up Arms.