A77979:1677
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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Obs. 3 Places set apart for Gods worship, and Religion, if they are corrupted, they are the worst of all others. Gilead a City of refuge, yet where was there ever such a defiled and corrupted place as it was?1 so in our Universities, and Colleges, what superstitions, and vanities did abound among them? even like Augeus Stable, a place of filthiness, and vileness, and this is no new thing,2 for Gregory Nazenzine reports of Athens, that it was the plaguest place in the world for superstition, and he acknowledgeth it a great mercy that God did preserve him and Basil from those infections.
Obs. 3 Places set apart for Gods worship, and Religion, if they are corrupted, they are the worst of all others. Gilead a City of refuge, yet where was there ever such a defiled and corrupted place as it was?1 so in our Universities, and Colledges, what superstitions, and vanities did abound among them? even like Augeus Stable, a place of filthiness, and vileness, and this is no new thing,2 for Gr•gory Nazenzine reports of Athens, that it was the plaguest place in the world for superstition, and he acknowledgeth it a great mercy that God did preserve him and Bazil from those infections.
- 1Universities.
- 2Greg. Naz.
Obs. 4 To be a worker of iniquity is a most abominable thing. Gilead is a City of them that work iniquity, Gods people sometimes be overtaken by sin, but they are never workers of iniquity, for the Scripture tells us, that he which works iniquity is of the Devil.