A30575:1274
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 4: VER. 4.
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.
To know God to be a God is, 1. To know him to be 1the First being of all. 2. The Infinite, Al▪ sufficient God. 3 The Fountain of all good to his Saints.
To know God to be a God is, 1. To know him to be 1the First being of all. 2. The Infinit, Al▪ sufficient God. 3 The Fountain of all good to his Saints.
- 1What it is to know God.
1 This must needs gain the heart to him. 2 There is no worship of God where this is not. 3 Where this is all follows. 4 The right knowledge of God keeps from false worship. Gal. 4. 9. Since you know God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye to the weak and beggarly elements of the world? [See the Jewish way of Ceremonial worship]—Thou shalt know no God but me. This is the first Commandment, of which Luther saith, All flows from that great Ocean of the first Commandment, and again return thither. We see the Prophets to be most exercised in the use of the first Commandment. Hence note,
1 This must needs gain the heart to him. 2 There is no worship of God where this is not. 3 Where this is all follows. 4 The right knowledg of God keeps from false worship. Gal. 4. 9. Since you know God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye to the weak and beggerly elements of the world? [See the Jewish way of Ceremonial worship]—Thou shalt know no God but me. This is the first Commandement, of which Luther saith, All flows from that great Ocean of the first Commandement, and again return thither. We see the Prophets to be most exercised in the use of the first Commandement. Hence note,