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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 13
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.
And this is one thing further observable for the high places, that it is not said here in the Text only that they sacrificed upon the Mountain•, but upon the top of the mountains. There are two things very observable from hence.
First, It noteth the publicness of their way of Idolatry. They would not do it in a corner, in a hole, but they would go to the mountains,1 to the top of the mountains and were not ashamed. Idolatry is brazen faced, it is impudent and loveth to be public. Use. Oh why should we not have the true worship of God as public! It is a lamentable case when the true worship of God must get into holes and corners and dare not appear in public; yea when they are persecuted because they are in corners and they say they get into holes and corners and there they do thus and thus. Well my brethren, let us pray and endeavour what we can to bring in the true worship of God to the most public way that may be, that we may not be ashamed of it in public before the world. In Revel. 14.6.2 there is mention of an Angel flying in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel in his hand to preach unto them that dwell on the earth; Now it is ordinary in the Revelation to set out the Ministry of the Gospel by an Angel, and so it is a prophecy of the Ministry of the Gospel, that it shall fly in Heaven, aloft, publicly, that all the world shall see it. And mark what follows upon this, verse 8. And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. So that the Note from thence is,3 That when the Ministry of the Gospel and the Ordinances of the Gospel comes to be made openly public, then is the time for Babylon to fall, and so long as Babylon stands and Antichrist stands so long is the Gospel fain to be preached in corners, but when the time of Babylons fall cometh then shall the Ministry of the Gospel be in Heaven, above, in the eyes of all the people, in a public way.