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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 indeed you shall have many people which think it a strange thing for men not to have regard to such Festivals, Why may not we keep the birth of our Saviour! Now that you might not think it a strange thing do but consider of this, that when God ⟨p. 110⟩hath set apart any thing for a holy use it is no strange thing,1 but it should be strange in man to venture to imitate God in the things of his Worship, to do that in Gods worship which God himself hath done before; thus God hath set apart a holy time, viz. the Sabbath; it is set apart for to solemnize all the work of Redemption,2 both the Nativity of Christ, and his Life, and Death, and Resurrection, and Ascension, and the coming of the Holy Ghost, all the things about mans Redemption, (I say) God hath set the Sabbath apart to that end that we might have a Holy day to keep the remembrance of them. Now when God hath set one day apart, for man to dare to venture to set another apart, this is presumption. So because Christ hath set outward Elements and Sacraments to be a remembrance for his body and blood; for man to say, Christ hath set apart, a piece of Bread and Wine, why may not I set some other thing apart? This you would all say were a great presumption. Certainly the presumption is the same in the former.
and indeed you shall have many people which think it a strange thing for men not to have regard to such Festivals, Why may not we keep the birth of our Savior! Now that you might not think it a strange thing do but consider of this, that when God ⟨p. 110⟩hath set apart any thing for a holy use it is no strange thing,1 but it should be strange in man to venture to imitate God in the things of his Worship, to do that in Gods worship which God himself hath done before; thus God hath set apart a holy time, viz. the Sabbath; it is set apart for to solemnize all the work of Redemption,2 both the Nativity of Christ, and his Life, and Death, and Resurrection, and Ascention, and the coming of the Holy Ghost, all the things about mans Redemption, (I say) God hath set the Sabbath apart to that end that we might have a Holy day to keep the remembrance of them. Now when God hath set one day apart, for man to dare to venture to set another apart, this is presumption. So because Christ hath set outward Elements and Sacraments to be a remembrance for his body and blood; for man to say, Christ hath set apart, a piece of Bread and Wine, why may not I set some other thing apart? This you would all say were a great presumption. Certainly the presumption is the same in the former.