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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.
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;1 that creature that the Scripture speaks of in 1. Pet. 2. 13. he calls their Kings and Governors mans creation, man made them; and you know the Scripture calls Governors, Gods. I have said, you are Gods. *I but it is said, they die like men: this text will show it: if man made them they cannot be Gods. And the former Scripture tells us, that Kings and Governors are mans ⟨p. 32⟩creation. In your books it's translated mans Ordinance but it is in the Greek,3 mans Creation: man made them and therefore they are not Gods; therefore we must not give them the honour of a God, to subject our consciences unto them, no, neither are we bound to subject our outward estates and liberties, and lives to their humours and lusts, merely to their own wills, for this is proper to God to subject all to his will, merely because it is his will; but seeing man made them they are not truly God, and therefore they must not have the honour that is due to God.
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;1 that creature that the Scripture speaks of in 1. Pet. 2. 13. he cals their Kings and Governors mans creation, man made them; and you know the Scripture calls Governors, Gods. I have said, you are Gods. *I but it is said, they die like men: this text will shew it: if man made them they cannot be Gods. And the former Scripture tells us, that Kings and Governors are mans ⟨p. 32⟩