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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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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 ⟨p. 150⟩of the worshippers. Even Heathens themselves when they worshipped their Idols they sought to have the hearts of the worshippers to be fild with reverence. And,
Fourthly, They thought that the spirits of their Heroes were up and down in the woods and groves. It was the tradition of the Heathens, they were taught it by their Priests, that the ghosts of their great men, their Heroes were in woods and in groves:1 Nulli certa domus, lucis habitamus opacis. So you have it in Virgil, that they themselves have no certain houses to dwell in, but they dwelt in dark and solitary places, in woods and groves.