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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. › Chapter 9 › Verse 15 › All their wickedness.
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.
But I find some Interpreters,1 and that not one or two, but many, (and that makes me speak of this Interpretation) that refer this wickedness to the casting off the Government that God had appointed, and the bringing in of a new Government: at Gilgal was the place where they would have Saul to be their King, and cast off the Government by Judges that God had appointed among them, Gilgal was the place; now this was the ground of all their other obstinate wickedness, and God remembers this a long time after and saith, All their wickedness is in Gilgal, and there I hated them.
- 1Expos. 2 Ar. Mon. and some Hebr. Interpreters.
From hence the Note is this,1 That it's a hateful thing to cast off the Government that God would have us under, 2it is hateful to God; the Jews had both their Civil and Ecclesiastical Government by Divine Institution, they were both mixed in one there. And though now we have not our Civil Government by Divine Institution, but it's left to the Creation of man,3 according as in prudence men in several Countries shall think best; but Ecclesiastical Government certainly is as much by Divine Institution now, as ever it was, and it must be so, because it is spiritual, and nothing can work in a spiritual way upon the inward man but that that is by Divine Institution, therefore whatever the Government be (I will not meddle with the particulars) yet we must take heed how we cast off that which is appointed by God, for that's hateful, there I hated them; we had need therefore search and examine to find what that is,4 and if we think it be not so clear as their Government was to them, we must take so much the more pains to examine, and not think it long that there is so much time spent i seeking to find out what the Government should be, do not think it a light matter: many people they think it but a circumstance, and things that we need not trouble our selves so much about, and why should there be so much time spent in searching it out;