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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.
Secondly, Because it should be taken in pieces. It's the greatest folly to look upon that which hath its excellency from our selves to be superior above us, and that in the highest degree. To forsake that God that made us, and to make that to be a God unto us that we have made our selves: The Father looks upon his Child as inferior to him, because he was the instrument of his being, and so he may well: If any man have maintenance by one, or is raised by him, he expect that he should be serviceable to him.1 Only Idolatry makes men go against the very principles of reason: They made it and yet they accounted it their god,
Secondly, Because it should be taken in pieces. It's the greatest folly to look upon that which hath its excellency from our selves to be superior above us, and that in the highest degree. To forsake that God that made us, and to make that to be a God unto us that we have made our selves: The Father looks upon his Child as inferior to him, because he was the instrument of his being, and so he may well: If any man have maintainance by one, or is raised by him, he expect that he should be serviceable to him.1 Only Idolatry makes men go against the very principles of reason: They made it and yet they accounted it their god,
- 1Idolatry drives men against principls▪ of reason.
And an especial Note from hence it, That man by any work of his own cannot put a Divinity upon a creature. They made it, therefore it is not God. Man by any work that he can do cannot put Divinity upon a creature, no, he cannot so much as put holiness into a creature; all the workmanship of man by his consecration or any thing that he can do, cannot make stones and mortar to be holy, so as now it should be a sin to use them to any*