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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 13 › And have built Temples.
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.
Again, When mens hearts depart most desperately and furthest off from God, 1they are many times very forward in superstitious worship. As we know it in the primitive times, the hearts of men did close most with the power of godliness, and were more sincere in their worship; but afterwards when they came to have peace, in, and after Constantine's time when they had Temples, then they forgot God most and grew superstitious. When the Christians worshipped ⟨p. 129⟩God in Dens and Caves of the earth, they remembered God more than when they had glorious Temples built for them. Men that have departed from God and have guilty consciences, they must have something to satisfy their consciences.2 Of late our Kingdom, how desperately was it departing from God, and setting its self against all the power of godliness? But never more for building of Temples, that is, more for an outward pompous and glorious Worship; but they forsook the Temples of God and persecuted them, and the Saints of God that were the Temples of the holy Ghost, they were neglected.
Again, When mens hearts depart most desperatly and furthest off from God, 1they are many times very forward in superstitious worship. As we know it in the primitive times, the hearts of men did close most with the power of godliness, and were more sincere in their worship; but afterwards when they came to have peace, in, and after Constantines time when they had Temples, then they forgot God most and grew superstitious. When the Christians worshiped ⟨p. 129⟩God in Dens and Caves of the earth, they remembred God more than when they had glorious Temples built for them. Men that have departed from God and have guilty consciences, they must have something to satisfie their consciences.2 Of late our Kingdom, how desperatly was it departing from God, and setting its self against all the power of godliness? But never more for building of Temples, that is, more for an outward pompous and glorious Worship; but they forsook the Temples of God and persecuted them, and the Saints of God that were the Temples of the holy Ghost, they were neglected.