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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 2: VER. 2.
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As if he should say, What a sottish thing is this, That when themselves put all the excellency that the Creature 1hath put upon it, and yet they will worship it, and say ⟨p. 441⟩to the men that sacrifice, Kiss the Calves? But God challenges Worship upon this ground, Because He is the Cause, the Supreme, the only Cause of all Excellency Himself. From hence note,
As if he should say, What a sottish thing is this, That when themselves put all the excellency that the Creature 1hath put upon it, and yet they will worship it, and say ⟨p. 441⟩to the men that sacrifice, Kiss the Calves? But God challenges Worship upon this ground, Because He is the Cause, the Supream, the only Cause of all Excellency Himself. From hence note,
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That those that venture most upon their own understandings 1in the matters of Worship, God gives most up to sottishness; I say If men will venture to go according to their own understandings in Worship, God may justly give them up to sottishness, and none are given up more than those that think to be most prudential and wise, in the matters of Worship: Isa. 29. 13. saith he, Their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men: What then? Therefore I will 2do a marvellous work among the People, even a marvellous work and a wonder; (What's the marvellous work, what's the wonder?) The wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of the prudent shall be hid. What, they will venture upon their own understandings in the matters of my Worship, and they will prescribe what I should have, and they think they are very wise in what they do; I will do a marvellous work and a wonder: (what's this?) I will cause the wisdom of their wise men to perish, and the understanding of the prudent shall be hid, they shall be left to sottish ways, to absurd ways, that all that are about them shall see that they are blinded in their courses and ways.