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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.
Secondly, They sacrificed there in imitation of the Patriarchs, as I showed before, Abraham built a grove by the Altar he made; and so many of the Patriarchs had groves and trees by their Altars, and in imitation of them they did it, and so did the Heathens, for the Devil did strive much to imitate the way of the true worship of God, but now when they came once to abuse the ancient practice of the Patriarchs, God removes it.
Secondly, They sacrificed there in imitation of the Patriarches, as I shewd before, Abraham built a grove by the Altar he made; and so many of the Patriarchs had groves and trees by their Altars, and in imitation of them they did it, and so did the Heathens, for the Devil did strive much to imitate the way of the true worship of God, but now when they came once to abuse the ancient practice of the Patriarchs, God removes it.
Thirdly, They thought that dark and shady places, dark §3by the shadiness of these trees, might strike some fear and reverence in the hearts of men when they came to worship, there is a kind of dismalness as it were, and it doth cause a kind of reverence in coming into woods where there are high trees and shady places, there is a kind of solemness in it, and they thought it was a means to put reverence into the hearts ⟨p. 150⟩of the worshippers. Even Heathens themselves when they worshipped their Idols they sought to have the hearts of the worshippers to be filled with reverence. And,
Thirdly, They thought that dark and shady places, dark §3by the shadiness of these trees, might strike some fear and reverence in the hearts of men when they came to worship, there is a kind of dismalness as it were, and it doth cause a kind of reverence in coming into woods where there are high trees and shady places, there is a kind of solemness in it, and they thought it was a means to put reverence into the hearts