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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 4 › Verse 9
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.
Again secondly, [Like people like Priest] In evil in regard §2of the great influence that there is mutually from the Priests to the people and from the people to the Priests, so they come to be like one another in evil. Sometime from the people to the Priests. If people be Malignants and superstitious and loose and vain, the Priests that are among them being carnal, they will seek to humour them; they love to be made of by them and therefore they preach such things as may suit with such kind of humours. But this is a very vile thing. It is an extreme dishonour to the Ministry of the word to subject it unto the lusts of men. It is this that makes it so contemptible in the eyes of wicked men. Though they be pleased with it yet the truth is the suiting of their lusts makes the Ministry of the word contemptible. How is that you will say, they are pleased with it, commend such men and like them well? While they commend the men and like them well, yea like what they say yet they contemn the Ministry, upon this ground, ⟨p. 114⟩because they come to see that even their ministry is under their humours, and it is to please their humours; upon this they look upon themselves and their lusts as above the Ministry, and so despise any authority in it: They are pleased with the suiting of it to their lusts, but they despise it in regard of any authority, for they see apparently it is under their humours. In Revel. 19.10.1 When John did but fall down to worship an Angel,2 the Angel cometh to him and saith, O see thou do it not, why? for I am thy fellow servant and have the testimony of Jesus. What you a Minister that have the testimony of Jesus to fall down to an Angel; An Angel, what is an Angel? The glory of an Angel it is to be a fellow servant with you and to have the same testimony of Jesus that you have. A Minister must not in hi• ministry fall down under the lusts of any man living, upon this ground, because he hath the testimony of Jesus with him. It is true those that are Ministers in regard of themselves should be willing to be under all, servants unto all for Christ; they should I say be willing to put their persons under every man for Christ, but they should keep their Ministry above every man. Their Ministry and the authority of that is to be kept above the greatest and that for Christ too.