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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 15
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.
But what is Gods face? Ut amplecterentur verbum & cultos in verbo propositos, hec propriem est facies Dei, qua se revelat, & nobis conspicuendum offert: It is the word, and Gods worship propounded in the word &c. saith Calvin, 1as upon this place, so on that, Seek ye my face. Whence observe,
But what is Gods face? Ʋt amplecterentur verbum & cultos in verbo propositos, hec propriem est facies Dei, qua se revelat, & nobis conspicuendum offert: It is the word, and Gods worship propounded in the word &c. saith Calvin, 1as upon this place, so on that, Seek ye my face. Whence observe,
- 1Calvin
Gods Ordinances and Worship are his face. The soul never Obs. 1 comes to know God or have communion with Him, so as in these; in other things darkly, in these with open face. The creatures are but his footsteps; these His countenance, whereby we know him better than by the other.
Gods Ordinances and Worship are his face. The soule never Obs. 1 comes to know God or have communion with Him, so as in these; in other things darkly, in these with open face. The creatures are but his footsteps; these His countenance, whereby we know him better than by the other.
Again, observe, Repenting hearts are very solicitous about Gods Obs. 2 Ordinances, and the right way of his worship. As soon as they begin to know God and themselves, they begin to disrelish those ways of worship, that went down with them well enough before.