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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
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.
Of their silver and gold have they made them Idols.
See the ill success of it (so great an evil is it to do any thing and not call upon God) and all because God was not sought, whatsoever we do to satisfy our passions and lusts for our own ends without seeking God, we cannot think but very il fruit will come of it; though God suffered this Kingdom to prosper outwardly, yet woeful mischievous fruit did come upon the alteration of their Government without God; for this Kingdom these two hundred years continued in Idolatrous worship, and it came upon this.1 We had need take heed to our hearts that we be upright, and seek God in setting up any new form of Government, lest though it be very specious to our eye, we may think that we are delivered from many yokes and burdens, yet such effects may come of it, that we may be brought hereby under many yokes and burdens. They cast off the house of David because of the burdens that were upon them, but yet they casting it off from them in a passionate way, now they have brought a greater yoke upon them, for now Jeroboam and his successors, he lays a very heavy yoke upon their very consciences, the yoke of Idolatry; it was a burden that before was upon their backs and shoulders, but now it comes to be a burden upon their consciences, and that's a great deal heavier than upon their backs and shoulders.
See the ill success of it (so great an evil is it to do any thing and not call upon God) and all because God was not sought, whatsoever we do to satisfie our passions and lusts for our own ends without seeking God, we cannot think but very il fruit wil come of it; though God suffered this Kingdom to prosper outwardly, yet woful mischievous fruit did come upon the alteration of their Government without God; for this Kingdom these two hundred years continued in Idolatrous worship, and it came upon this.