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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
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but though he was so liberal and bountiful to redeem Captives, yet he writ back again to him in way of reprehending him for not reading Scripture, and uses this expression to him, The Emperor of Heaven, the Lord of the Angels and Men, hath sent to you, that which concerns your life, and will you neglect to read them with a fervent, with a zealous spirit? He would not but blame him even at that time when he sent such gifts to him, it did grieve him to think that such a one so bountiful to the poor should so neglect the reading of Scripture. Many men and women that have excellent parts and yet for all that they find but little savour in the Scripture. There's no books that are written that should take us off from this written Word; although we have cause to bless God abundantly for what is written, for those excellent helps which we have written, yet we must take heed that there be no written book in the world take us off from this written Word of God.1 Luther therefore hath such a speech, I even ⟨p. 90⟩hate mine own Books, and I often times even wish that they were burnt, that they might perish, Why? because I fear lest they should be any way of hinderance to men, or withdraw them from reading the Scriptures: and so he falls a commending the Scriptures: It is the only fountain of all wisdom; and further saith he▪ I am even terrified, I tremble at the example of the former age, upon this, Because (saith he) many Divines spent so much time in reading of Aristotle and Avers and other Writers and spent so little time in reading Scripture. And the truth is it was that which brought so much ignorance into the world in the time of the School-men which was a time of great learning and yet the time of the greatest ignorance in the Mysteries,2 of godliness, because they minded Scripture very little, but only turned things into Questions, and Disputes that tended not according to Scripture; though we may make use of the labours and gifts of other men, yet look we especially to the written Word, and let not other writings take us off from them, hence we say, the Scripture in way of excellency we must keep our selves to the written Word, and therefore take heed of being led aside by any traditions of men; that's a most detestable derogation from the written Word: