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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 Secondly, They are great things because of the lustre of the great God that shines in them. Take all the Creatures that ever God made in Heaven and Earth, and (I say) there is not so much glory of God in Sun, Moon, Stars, Sea, and Plants, and all things in the world, as there is in some few sentences of holy Scripture, therefore they are great things: Psal. 138. 2. 1Thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name. The Name of God appears in his great work of Creation, and of Providence. We are to look upon Gods Name as very great; yet thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name; it's more than all Gods Names besides: It may ⟨p. 97⟩be when there are some extraordinary works of God in the world, Thundering, and Lightning &c. we are ready to be afraid, and oh! the great God that doth appear in these great works! Were our hearts […] they ought to be when we read the WORD, we would tremble at that more than at any manifestation of God since the world began in all his Works; and if so be thou dost not see more glory of God in his Word than in his Works, it is because thou hast little light in thee; and therefore let the world think of the things of Gods Law that are written, as they will, yet they are the great things of his Law.
And Secondly, They are great things because of the lustre of the great God that shines in them. Take all the Creatures that ever God made in Heaven and Earth, and (I say) there is not so much glory of God in Sun, Moon, Stars, Sea, and Plants, and al things in the world, as there is in some few sentences of holy Scripture, therfore they are great things: Psal. 138. 2. 1Thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name. The Name of God appears in his great work of Creation, and of Providence. We are to look upon Gods Name as very great; yet thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name; it's more than al Gods Names besides: It may ⟨p. 97⟩