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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 11: VER. 11.
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.
We may look at this point as nearly concerning our 1selves thus, if a Superstitious, Prelatical Ministry, and People had the wrath of God pursuing them, as it hath been heavy upon them, then those who shall profess to come near in the point of Reformation, whosoever they be, this side or the other side, any way, whosoever professes to come nearer, if they mingle their own inventions in Worship, God will be more sorely displeased with them, the more piety and holiness, the more we profess to come close to the Word of God, and yet withal mingle our own inventions, the more is God displeased; Gilgal is rather more than Gilead.
We may look at this point as neerly concerning our 1selves thus, if a Superstitious, Prelatical Ministry, and People had the wrath of God pursuing them, as it hath been heavy upon them, then those who shall profess to come neer in the point of Reformation, whosoever they be, this side or the other side, any way, whosoever professes to come neerer, if they mingle their own inventions in Worship, God will be more sorely displeased with them, the more piety and holiness, the more we profess to come close to the Word of God, and yet withal mingle our own inventions, the more is God displeased; Gilgal is rather more than Gilead.
- 1Applic. to Reformers in England.
Again, Their Altars (he saith) are as heaps in the furrows of the field; as common, and as ordinary, as husband-men 1use to gather their stones that kept the Corn from growing, and every furlong almost there was some heap of stones laid, and saith he, Their Altars were as common as those heaps of stones.
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