A77979:1565
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.
In the case of Church societies, when the People of God are scattered, and cannot meet together, God is content in such cases His people should be without Ordinances, and yet no sin to them: as is clear in the case of the children of Israel all the time the Church was in the wilderness even for forty years together they wanted Circumcision; but when they came into Canaan, that they enjoyed any settlement than they were circumcised again, and had the Passover which before they could not partake of; so that in some cases and upon some grounds the people of God may be without Ordinances, and that for a long time, and yet without sin to them; and upon this ground in the text, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: therefore this may be the reason of those words which Christ spake to His Disciples: I have many things to say unto you, but you are not able to bear them: so may we say, Christ hath many truths to reveal which yet people are not able to bear, therefore he with-holds the revelation of them until that time.
In the case of Church societies, when the People of God are scattered, and cannot meet together, God is content in such cases His people should be without Ordinances, and yet no sin to them: as is cleer in the case of the children of Israel all the time the Church was in the wilderness even for fourty yeers together they wanted Circumcision; but when they came into Canaan, that they enjoyed any settlement than they were circumcised again, and had the Passover which before they could not partake of; so that in some cases and upon some grounds the people of God may be without Ordinances, and that for a long time, and yet without sin to them; and upon this ground in the text, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: therfore this may be the reason of those words which Christ spake to His Disciples: I have many things to say unto you, but you are not able to bear them: so may we say, Christ hath many truths to reveal which yet people are not able to bear, therefore he with-holds the revelation of them until that time.