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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 4 › Verse 13
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The Note is this from it, When once God chooseth places or things, when God once putteth a stamp of holiness upon places or things, 1then no men may choose places or things and put such a stamp of holiness upon them as God hath put. If God appointeth a way of worship of his own, this stops us from all other of our own. If God makes a place holy this stops us that we must never make any place holy but that; so it is true of things, of ceremonies, any thing, if once God sets a stamp upon a thing to make it holy, we must confine our selves to that, and not think to imitate God in it, to make any thing of the same kind to be holy as God hath done. It was now a sin for them, and God stands much upon circumstances we see in his worship. You shall have many men plead why should men be so strict and scrupulous to stand upon circumstances? what must we have every circumstance in the word of God commanded? My brethren, that which is natural and moral and may be subservient to religious things, may be left (it's true) unto prudence, but whatsoever hath any Religion in it, though it be but a circumstance, God stands much upon it, and we must have a Divine rule for it. Natural circumstances, moral, civil, circumstances, prudence is enough to guide us in, but any religious circumstance we must have a rule for it. Here they are not accused for sacrificing the things they ought not to sacrifice, no question but they offered those sacrifices which they were commanded, sheep and beeves and the like, but only in the circumstance of place, they did not sacrifice where God would have them sacrifice, therefore God charged them in this thing that they went a whoring from under their God. It is true, we read sometime of some godly mens sacrificing else where, Gideon under an Oak, Judg. 6. and Samuel upon an high place, 1 Sam. 2. and so David in the threshing floor of Araunah, 2 Sam. 24. Now to all those instances the answer generally is given by Divines, that they could not be any way lawful for them to do thus but by some special dispensation of God himself, some special revelation from God to give them order to do it there or elf it could not but be a sin. For the Kings of Israel and Judah they also are charged ⟨p. 144⟩