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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 13 › Verse 2: VER. 2.
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.
Though Men will not have Gods service to be chargeable 1to them, yet their own ways are chargeable to them. They made them molten Images, and Idols. The word that 2is translated [Idols] it signifies griefs, and those things that do terrify; and indeed Idolatry will bring grief, and men that are of Superstitious, Idolatrous spirits they are filled with fears many times. But this is all according to their own understanding, that is as they thought fit themselves, such as should be suitable to their own ends, they took the liberty to tender up their respects to God according to their own inventions; and herein indeed comes superstition, as I told you. Hence comes ⟨p. 439⟩the Worship of God to be so much corrupted: When men will interpose their own understandings, when men will leave 3the simplicity of the Rule, and go their own way, when men think that the Worship of God is not pompous enough of its self, They which do not worship God in a Spiritual way, they will labour to make up the want of the Spiritual 4part by addition of many outward things, by their own understanding; and because they think those things in the service of God are rational to them, they think they must be acceptable to God, and therefore wonder that any body should be against them.
Though Men will not have Gods service to be chargable 1to them, yet their own waies are chargable to them. They made them molten Images, and Idols. The word that 2is translated [Idols] it signifies griefs, and those things that do terrifie; and indeed Idolatry will bring grief, and men that are of Superstitious, Idolatrous spirits they are fill'd with fears many times. But this is all according to their own understanding, that is as they thought fit themselves, such as should be sutable to their own ends, they took the liberty to tender up their respects to God according to their own inventions; and herein indeed comes superstition, as I told you. Hence comes