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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.
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* common use, man takes too much upon him to think to raise the creature so near to a Divinity, he cannot by any work of his put any Religious respect on any creature so as that God shall be nearer to him, or he nearer to God than in any other place. Whatsoever is of mans work in Gods Worship it perishes in the use of it, surely then mans creation cannot be God, The work man made it, therefore it is not God.
And an especial Note from hemce 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 consecratien 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* common use, man takes too much upon him to think to raise the creature so near to a Divinity, he cannot by any work of his put any Religious respect on any creature so as that God shall be neerer to him, or he neerer to God than in any other place. Whatsoever is of mans work in Gods Worship it perishes in the use of it, surely then mans creation cannot be God, The work man made it, therefore it is not God.
- *in case of need.
Indeed there is a creation of man that the Scripture speaks of that is called, God, but not truly, not God really, rather a Metaphorical God;