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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.
In case of mercy to our bodies: And this is Christs case in the 12th of Matthew, 7. verse, If ye had known what this meaneth, ye ⟨p. 607⟩would not have condemned the guiltless: yet, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Gods care of the bodies of men is such, that he will rather have men do the one than the other, He will rather have mercy than the duty: Christ doth not plead here for the Disciples, that this was not a breach of the Sabbath; but the case was such that their bodies required it, it was a case of mercy, and now God would rather have mercy than the duty: A servant perhaps thinks much to stay at home to tend a child, or look to the house upon the Lords day, he objects, Why should not I go to the Church? Is not my soul of greater worth and price than this child, or this house? Now these people go upon a good principle; yet here they err in their acting of it: as to instance; A father commands his child to do two services for him, the one to wait on him at the table,1 the other to make clean his shoos; to wait upon his father at the table he is willing to do, because this is creditable, but the other he grumbles at and is discontented: now in which doth he show most obedience in? Surely in obeying of the meanest command. So God requires of us two sorts of Duties, one the more honourable, the other more mean, yet perhaps the meaner, a work of mercy: God is wonderful careful of our bodies,2 and would have us also careful of the bodies of others, men ought not to massacre their bodies, God doth not require weak sickly bodies, to spend whole nights in fasting and prayer: God in this case will have mercy, and not sacrifice of us.
In case of mercy to our bodies: And this is Christs case in the 12th of Matthew, 7. verse, If ye had known what this meaneth, ye ⟨p. 607⟩would not have condemned the guiltless: yet, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Gods care of the bodies of men is such, that he will rather have men do the one than the other, He wil rather have mercy than the duty: Christ doth not plead here for the Disciples, that this was not a breach of the Sabbath; but the case was such that their bodies required it, it was a case of mercy, and now God would rather have mercy than the duty: A servant perhaps thinks much to stay at home to tend a child, or look to the house upon the Lords day, he objects, Why should not I go to the Church? Is not my soul of greater worth and price than this child, or this house? Now these people go upon a good principle; yet here they er in their acting of it: as to instance; A father commands his child to do two services for him, the one to wait on him at the table,