A77979:494
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.
Come not to Beth-aven.] From whence we a•• to note, First, We must take h••d of coming to places that ar•ew-goous to draw us into sin, 1especially to false worship. Those places that are dangerous for bodily pollution we must take heed of. Prov. 5.8. Remove thy way f•• •m•her, and com• not near the door o• her house. Do not come so much as nigh her door. Say not, why ••y not I go such a way? may not I go by he• […] mu•• not go by her house nor […] ⟨p. 187⟩house. This is a strange admonition you will say; Mark the very words before the admonition, in the seventh verse, Hear me now O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth; what are the words of his mouth? Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. Thus wisdom her self counsels us, Use. howsoever many think they may take liberty to themselves to come near a temptation, near to such a place, many have come so near that they have been taken with the temptation;2 As you shall see it sometimes in your houses, when you light up a candle, you shall have some gnats and flies that will flutter up and down the light and at first they will keep at some distance, and then get nearer, till at length they singe their wings and lose their lives too; so it is with many, at first they think, they will not do such a thing, Oh God forbid they should do so and so; but they will come nigh a temptation, and be tampering with a temptation and at length they are taken with it and destroyed by it. It is dangerous to take liberty out of Curiosity to go to see places of Idolatry, with pretence only to see Mass,