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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 their abominations were as they loved.
That is, First, as they loved, so they were guided, they ⟨p. 217⟩were not guided by the Word, nor by any Divine Rule, not by right Reason, but according as they loved, they followed what they had a mind to,1 never regarding what Gods mind was; The judgment is soon gone when the heart is taken with a thing. Ordinarily people love that way they go, not that way the Rule guides them to, but what way their affections carry them on in;2 this is a very sinful thing for men to be acted with, and carried upon, merely by the violence of their affections, and especially this is evil in the matters of Gods Worship, there we may not do things as we love, that is, because we think such things are very fair and there appears no hurt in them to us, and they like us well; yea, but we must examine whether we have warrant out of the Word for that, we must not do as we love, but according as the rule is.
That is, First, as they loved, so they were guided, they ⟨p. 217⟩were not guided by the Word, nor by any Divine Rule, not by right Reason, but according as they loved, they followed what they had a mind to,1 never regarding what Gods mind was; The judgment is soon gone when the heart is taken with a thing. Ordinarily people love that way they go, not that way the Rule guides them to, but what way their affections carry them on in;2 this is a very sinful thing for men to be acted with, and carried upon, meerly by the violence of their affections, and especially this is evil in the matters of Gods Worship, there we may not do things as we love, that is, because we think such things are very fair and there appears no hurt in them to us, and they like us well; yea, but we must examine whether we have warrant out of the Word for that, we must not do as we love, but according as the rule is.