A77979:1622
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.
Quest. 2 Why is the knowledge of God joined to mercy here? was it not full enough before, Mercy, and not sacrifice?
Quest. 2 Why is the knowledge of God joyned to mercy here? was it not full enough before, Mercy, and not sacrifice?
Answ. Because as God accepts not mercy without sacrifice, neither doth he regard knowledge without mercy; men are here in the extremes on both sides; some are very merciful, as the Papists, but withal very ignorant of the knowledge of God and his ways, that as the Apostle saith of love, If I should give all my goods to the poor, and my body to be burnt, it were nothing: so if ⟨p. 619⟩we be never so merciful and ignorant it availeth nothing; others have much knowledge yet very rugged and hard hearted, now when these are separated God regards them not, but when mercy and knowledge meet together then are they pleasing.
Answ. Because as God accepts not mercy without sacrifice, neither doth he regard knowledg without mercy; men are here in the extreams on both sides; some are very merciful, as the Papists, but withal very ignorant of the knowledg of God and his waies, that as the Apostle saith of love, If I should give al my goods to the poor, and my body to be burnt, it were nothing: so if ⟨p. 619⟩we be never so merciful and ignorant it availeth nothing; others have much knowledge yet very rugged and hard hearted, now when these are separated God regardes them not, but when mercy and knowledge meet together then are they pleasing.