A77979:1840
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 8
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.
They mixed themselves in their persons, and suffered others to join with them: neither must Christians suffer the wicked to join with them in matters of worship;1 & surely if fornicators, adulterers & profane men are crept in; they must (when discerned) be cast out speedily. Now if such as these must be cast out when crept in unawares,2 then surely such must not be received in, when they are known beforehand to be such, and certainly a bare confession of faith is not sufficient or enough to admit a man to the Ordinances, for those that are vile and wicked in their lives, may make a verbal and outward confession, yet far from a true and cordial; men may confess with their mouths, and yet deny all in their lives; as if a man should confess his faith in English and deny it again in Latin; yet if any should creep into a Church in which thou art bodied,3 if thou dost thy duty in admonishing them, and if they will not be warned to profess against them, thou mayest certainly, yea and with good conscience partake of the Ordinance notwithstanding.
They mixed themselves in their persons, and suffered others to joyn with them: neither must Christians suffer the wicked to joyn with thē in matters of worship;1 & surely if fornicators, adulterers & profane men are crept in; they must (when discerned) be cast out speedily. Now if such as these must be cast out when crept in unawares,2 then surely such must not be received in, when they are known beforehand to be such, and certainly a bare confession of faith is not sufficient or enough to admit a man to the Ordinances, for those that are vile and wicked in their lives, may make a verbal and outward confession, yet far from a true and cordial; men may confess with their mouths, and yet deny all in their lives; as if a man should confess his faith in English and deny it again in Latin; yet if any should creep into a Church in which thou art bodied,3