A77979:1673
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 8
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3. By casting those out which were in, and could not be gainful to them, and many times they did deliver those out to the avenger of blood, when they should have protected them.
4. By their cruelty to those that would not join with them in their false worship; perhaps they might some of them be men of tender consciences and could not join with them in their superstitious worship? now these Priests perhaps would make complaints of them to the Magistrate, that they were troublesome persons and bred divisions, and by this means they got them out of the Cities of refuge. And hath not this been our case of late? thus they supplanted these Cities of refuge. The Notes of Observation are,
4. By their cruelty to those that would not joyn with them in their false worship; perhaps they might some of them be men of tender consciences and could not joyn with them in their superstitious worship? now these Priests perhaps would make complaints of them to the Magistrate, that they were troublesom persons and bred divisions, and by this means they got them out of the Cities of refuge. And hath not this been our case of late? thus they supplanted these Cities of refuge. The Notes of Observation are,
Obs. 1 That through mans wickedness the best Ordinances of God for the good of his people are corrupted and abused. These Cities of refuge were for special use, Ordinances of God set apart for the saving of blood, and they made it a means and instrument for the shedding of blood. The Sacrament is an Ordinance set apart by God, for union and communion; and what doth more separate from this, than the abuse of this Ordinance? mens coming unprepared separates tender consciences from joining with them: so likewise in Civil Ordinances for mens outward good, how have they been perverted? where have they tyrannized more, and used more cruelty and injustice than in those Courts of Justice, where Justice should have been done? and such as should have seen equity performed, were the greatest instruments of oppression and mischief.