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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.
This may be said of many of our services; they are all 1of man, there is nothing of God, nothing of the Spirit of Christ in them; no marvel though they vanish, and we vanish in them. —They say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kiss 2the Claves.
This may be said of many of our services; they are all 1of man, there is nothing of God, nothing of the Spirit of Christ in them; no mervel though they vanish, and we vanish in them. —They say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kiss 2the Claves.
- 1Applic.
- 2Text.
The old Latin hath it: Sacrifice men, in the Imperative: 1so the Greek. In zeal to their Idols they sacrificed men. [According to which reading the sense would be] Those are worthy to kiss the Calves that sacrifice men. This was forbidden, Levit. 18. 21. and Chap. 20. 2. But it was done in a perverse imitation of Abraham, who would have offered up Isaac. It prevailed much among the Heathen. The King of MOAB as we read in 2 King. 3. 27. sacrificed his eldest Son, that should have reigned in his stead. Tertullian says 2