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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.
Thirdly, It was a type of Jesus Christ. There were These three things that were proper to the Temple at Jerusalem. 1And therefore you must learn for ever from hence, that there can be no argument drawn from the Temple at Jerusalem for the holiness of Temples now.
- 1No argument therefore from thence for the holiness of ChurchesNo argument therfore from thence for the holiness of Churches
1. It is a superstition in any man to set apart a place so as it should be a sin to make use of it for any common thing.
2. Which is worse, and that is, For any man to set apart a place so as to think that the very place should sanctify the duty, because the Temple of Jerusalem did so: Now for a man to think that his prayers are sanctified, because they are within such a building as this is,1 is superstition: hence a company of poor ignorant people they must go behind a pillar and pray, as if they were accepted the more because of the place. It's true, when we come and join with the Church, then our prayers are accepted, because it is in a way of Ordinance. So Chrysostom cries out of this superstition, saith he, Jeremiah when he stuck in the mud could pray, and Job when he was upon the dunghill, and Jonah when he was in the belly of the Whale,2 and therefore why should we tie Gods hearing of of prayer to such and such places?