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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.
I have written to him the great things of my Law.
This is made an aggravation of their sin, they multiply Altars to sin,1 and yet saith God, I have written to them the great things of my Law: they find no such things in my Law written to them, this was against the very written Word of God, and what that written Word of God against those many Altars was, that you had the last day, but in that from this connection that these are made sins because they ⟨p. 85⟩were against the written Word of God: from thence the Note is,
This is made an aggravation of their sin, they multiply Altars to sin,1 and yet saith God, I have written to them the great things of my Law: they find no such things in my Law written to them, this was against the very written Word of God, and what that written Word of God against those many Altars was, that you had the last day, but in that from this connexion that these are made sins because they ⟨p. 85⟩were against the written Word of God: from thence the Note is,
- 1Expicat.
That whatsoever is urged to us, 1or practised by us in matters of Worship, it must have Warrant out of the written Word of God. It was sin, Why? because I have written to them (saith he) the great things of my Law, and they counted it a strong thing; though that which they did had a great deal of seeming devotion in it, yet it was otherwise than that they found written in my Law.