A30574:464
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.
They have forgotten God their Maker.
That should have been the other Note,1 That the greater height of excellency God raises any man to, the more vile and wicked is the sin of forgetting God when they are advanced. Many men will remember God when they are low, but when God hath advanced them, then they forget him, and that's worse. But it follows.
- 1Obs. 2.
And have built Temples.
How is God forgotten, and they build Temples to the honour of God? You accuse us of forgetting God our Maker; What People in the world doth remember God so as we do, when we are at such charges as we are at.
How is God forgotten, and they build Temples to the honor of God? You accuse us of forgetting God our Maker; What People in the world doth rememember God so as we do, when we are at such charges as we are at.