A77979:1789
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 7 › Verse 5
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.
So that it be not made as a holy day,1 so there be not put a holiness in it; for God never gave that power to man, to set a day apart as holy for his use.
- 1wth what caution to be celebrated.wth what cautiō to be celebrated.
Then it may be here objected, Object. What, may not man set days apart for Humiliation, or Thanksgiving? Yea, he may. Then what is the difference between Gods setting of days apart for holy uses, and mans setting of days apart for holy uses?
Then it may be here objected, Object. What, may not man set daies apart for Humiliation, or Thanksgiving? Yea, he may. Then what is the difference between Gods setting of dayes apart for holy uses, and mans setting of daies apart for holy uses?
The difference lies in this: Answ. Time and things set apart by God for holy employments and services, besides that they make the duties more holy, and the Ordinances more solemn and spiritual, than they are upon a day which man doth appoint, (for mans appointment puts no holiness upon the duties which are done upon those days) there is a holiness in them when out of their use, as in Ministers &c. but there no more holiness in days and times set apart by man for God, than there is holiness put upon the paper which the Bible is printed upon; the Printer takes out so many reams of paper from his heap, and sets them apart to print the Bible; now will any man think this paper is more holy than the rest.
The difference lies in this: Answ. Time and things set apart by God for holy imployments and services, besides that they make the duties more holy, and the Ordinances more solemn and spiritual, than they are upon a day which man doth appoint, (for mans appointment puts no holiness upon the duties which are done upon those daies) there is a holinesse in them when out of their use, as in Ministers &c. but there no more holiness in daies and times set apart by man for God, than there is holiness put upon the paper which the Bible is printed upon; the Printer takes out so many reams of paper from his heap, and sets them apart to print the Bible; now will any man think this paper is more holy than the rest.