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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 15
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.
In any thing in the world there may be more plea for example than in instituted worship and the reason is this,1 Because that other things have somewhat of them written in the Law of nature in mans heart, all matters of morality are in some degree or other written in mans heart by nature, every man hath somewhat of the moral Law written in his heart, but institutions they are such things as depend merely upon Gods revealed will and are not written in the heart of man: Therefore though we might have a plea to follow the example of others in point of morality, yet there can be no just plea to follow the example of others in point of Institutions, there we must be sure to keep to the rule of Gods Word, to look above all things in points of Institution, to what is written and never to make it an argument that such or such people do so and so. And,
In any thing in the world there may be more plea for example than in instituted worship and the reason is this,1 Because that other things have somewhat of them written in the Law of nature in mans heart, all matters of morallity are in some degree or other written in mans heart by nature, every man hath somewhat of the moral Law written in his heart, but institutions they are such things as depend meerly upon Gods revealed will and are not written in the heart of man: Therfore though we might have a plea to follow the example of others in point of morality, yet there can be no just plea to follow the example of others in point of Institutions, there we must be sure to keep to the rule of Gods Word, to look above all things in points of Institution, to what is written and never to make it an argument that such or such people do so and so. And,
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Obs. 2 Secondly, a second Note is, That it goes near to the heart of God when his people offend much more than when others offend. Yet let not Judah offend: Judah was the only people of God, the only true Church of God that remained in the world. When Gods own people offend, Oh that goes nearer unto the heart of God than when others do offend. As Christ said to his Disciples, Will ye also go away? and as Julius Caesar said to Brutus in the Senate that came with a dagger to stab him, What and thou my son Brute, what thou amongst all others? so say God, when those that are professors of Religion, that are his people, that are near unto him, when they