A77979:1604
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.
Though the object of an action be spiritual, yet it is not a sufficient Obs. 6 ground to prefer it before another action whose object may be but natural. The Ordinances of God have God for their object, and the enjoying of communion with him, yet in other actions which may be only natural I may show more obedience to God in the doing of them, than in offering up of sacrifice.
Though the object of an action be spiritual, yet it is not a sufficient Obs. 6 ground to prefer it before another action whose object may be but natural. The Ordinances of God have God for their object, and the enjoying of communion with him, yet in other actions which may be only natural I may shew more obedience to God in the doing of them, than in offering up of sacrifice.
If Gods own Worship may be forborne in case of mercy, how much Obs. 7 more mens institutions and inventions? Oh what a vile spirit is there in those men which will not suffer their superstitious vanities to give place to mercy, men must be undone in their bodies and estates rather than their wills be disobeyed; the Prelates faction have confessed themselves, that the Cross, the Surplice, and the rest of that trash were their own institutions; yet Ministers must be silenced, bodies imprisoned, families ⟨p. 616⟩starved, and thousands of souls destroyed rather than their wills should not be fulfilled; Oh the intolerable pride of these men, had they been Gods institutions, yet in this case they might have been forborne, what did these men say in plain English but thus much? Let Christ never be revealed to millions and thousands of souls, rather than these ceremonies shall be omitted or neglected.
If Gods own Worship may be forborn in case of mercy, how much Obs. 7 more mens institutions and inventions? Oh what a vile spirit is there in those men which will not suffer their superstitious vanities to give place to mercy, men must be undone in their bodies and estates rather than their wills be disobeyed; the Prelates faction have confessed themselves, that the Cross, the Surplice, and the rest of that trash were their own institutions; yet Ministers must be silenced, bodies imprisoned, families