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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 6 › Verse 6
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.
Then there are Duties to be performed unto men,1 As honouring of parents, speaking the truth, not deceiving one another, defiling mens bodies, these Duties are radicated in the heart, that were there no Law of God to bind men, yet it were in mens hearts to do them:2 Now these Duties must not yield to mercy. But for instituted worship, such which if God had not revealed had not been duties, neither could men be bound unto them: As for their sacrifices under the Law, by Bullocks and Goats, these kind of sacrifices, were they not revealed by some Prophet to be the mind of God they had not bin bound unto them: So for our Church Ordinances of Sacraments, Christian Admonition and the like, are such as flow from Gods Prerogative, and not so much from Gods Nature; the other duties lie in Gods Nature and Holiness, and are to be performed unto Him as to a God so holy.
Then there are Duties to be performed unto men,1 As honoring of parents, speaking the truth, not deceiving one another, defiling mens bodies, these Duties are radicated in the heart, that were there no Law of God to bind men, yet it were in mens hearts to do them:2 Now these Duties must not yeild to mercy. But for instituted worship, such which if God had not revealed had not been duties, neither could men be bound unto them: As for their sacrifices under the Law, by Bullocks and Goats, these kind of sacrifices, were they not revealed by some Prophet to be the mind of God they had not bin bound unto them: So for our Church Ordinances of Sacraments, Christian Admonition and the like, are such as flow from Gods Prerogative, and not so much from Gods Nature; the other duties lie in Gods Nature and Holiness, and are to be performed unto Him as to a God so holy.
- 1Natural duties of humanity
- 2Natural duties must not yield to mercy. 2. Instituted dutiesNatural duties must not yeeld to mercy. 2. Instituted duties