A77979:1558
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.
The principal cases are these ten.1
- 1Answ. in 10. Cases
Sometimes in the case of a beast he will have mercy and not sacrifice; if a beast should be in danger of losing its life §1by any casualty upon the Lords day, God doth allow us to forbear all Church Ordinances at that time rather than let the beast perish; but because this liberty by God is allowed to men in this case, yet you must not think that a beast is better than all Gods Ordinances.
In case of mercy to the poor; and that I conceive to be the §2principal scope of the words of this text; these people here they wronged, oppressed, and tyrannized over the poor, and then they thought to make amends to God by their sacrifices and offerings; men must not lay out so much of their estates ⟨p. 604⟩either in superfluities, or for the maintenance of Gods true worship, as to hinder them in their benevolence and charity to the poor, no Ordinance of God should hinder us in showing mercy to the least member of Jesus Christ; although those which are next us ought to be first relieved, yet know, 'tis a shame that others should be neglected and forgotten, yea it is a reproach to the ways of God, that profane men should be more liberal to the poor, that more hungry bellies should be fed & naked backs clothed by them than by those which profess Religion and would seem to honour God most; do not you think this will be sufficient to excuse you before God, when the cry of the poor shall come up before him, that you have been at such and such charges for the Ordinances, and for Gods worship: no in this case God will have mercy.