A77979:1593
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
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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.
Certainly the mercy is very great, Answ. and much communion is thereto be had with God in his own Ordinances rightly administered, and happy are those souls which find this effect by the Ordinances and Communion with God.
Certainly the mercy is very great, Answ. and much communion is thereto be had with God in his own Ordinances rightly administred, and happy are those souls which find this effect by the Ordinances and Communion with God.
But yet know that the maintenance of the subject is to be §1more regarded than the comfort of it, though it be spiritual: but now have a care of turning what I have said into poison, do not ye say that you may now do any thing for the preservation of the subject, we must not do the least thing that can be, by which an Ordinance may be polluted and defiled.
But yet know that the maintainance of the subject is to be §1more regarded than the comfort of it, though it be spiritual: but now have a care of turning what I have said into poyson, do not ye say that you may now do any thing for the preservation of the subject, we must not do the least thing that can be, by which an Ordinance may be polluted and defiled.
To be serviceable in public use is more than to enjoy Ordinances; §2as for a Minister to preach Jesus Christ to a people is a greater mercy than his particular good can be; and this hath been the judgment of all the Churches, yea it hath been the practice of the Churches to send forth men to preach the Gospel, and to open the things of the Kingdom to them, in which time they could not enjoy the Ordinance of the Sacrament: Paul would have been content to have been Anathema for his brethren, the being of public use for the Churches good was a greater good to him and more in his esteem than private. Thus far of the objections, the observations follow answerable to these, Ten.