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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 11: VER. 11.
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.
Because Ephraim hath made many Altars to sin, Altars shall be unto him to sin.
IT was the Charge of God in Scripture, That there should be but one Altar for Sacrifice, and there was another Altar that afterwards was made for Incense, and no further, in Deut. 12. 3. and 5. ver. There we have the Charge of God that there should be none other made, You shall overthrow their Altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you shall hew down the graven Images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place &c. ⟨p. 70⟩And then, Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt offering in every place that thou seest, but in the place which the Lord shall choose &c. And in Deut. 27. 5. Thou shalt build an Altar to the Lord thy God, an Altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up an Iron tool upon them. And according to which Joshua did, in Joshua, 8. 30. and hence in Joshua, 22. 11. Now for the Altar of God, I shall first show you a little the meaning of them, and then the reason why God would have but this one Altar, in Exod. 20. 24. there is an injunction of God for the Altar of Sacrifice;1 An Altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offering &c. Here observe that, That when God would have an Altar made for sacrifice it must be but an Altar of earth, but if it should be of stone,2 Take heed that thou liftest not up a tool upon it. Why, one would think that to carve and paint the stones and do any thing to make it brave would do better, than to have the stones rough; No saith God, whatsoever you may think that to make my Altar brave, by carving of it and painting it, If you do but lift up a tool upon it, you pollute my Altar; all mans devices in the worship of God though they be never so pompous they do but pollute Gods Worship: