A77979:1791
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.
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.
There may be a day kept, yet so, as God do not at that §2time call for some other duty or service from us; man must not so tie himself by any institution of his own as to cross Gods providence: as suppose I have set a day apart for thanksgiving, at that very day providence may so fall out, that God may call for a day of humiliation; now if I should keep a thanksgiving day and so cross providence, being called to humiliation I should sin in the thing: These two things being observed, I know nothing to the contrary but that it may be lawful to observe a day, a man may remember his birth-day in this kind, to be humbled for not doing the work we are ⟨p. 662⟩