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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 5 › Verse 2
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.
To make slaughter] To make slaughter! what doth God intend by these words? By these he doth express their way of superstition and false worship. He meaneth by their making Expos. 1 slaughter, their sacrifices unto their Idols, and so by the sacrifice• which was the principal part of their false worship he m•aneth all their false worship they were deep in all their false worship, naming the chief for the rest.
But why doth He call their Sacrifices, making slaughter.
It is in way of reproach. Reas. All their sacrifices were no better than slaughter, their Temple was no better than a shambles, and their Priests no better than Butchers. God will not give them the honour as to say, they offered me sacrifice; No, but it is, to make slaughter. As if God should say, I look upon all your sacrifices as no other than upon slaughter, your Temple no otherwise than upon a butchers shambles, and your Priests no otherwise than butchers. Thus contemptibly doth God spe•k of the sacrifices of those that choose their own superstitious ways. Isa. 66.3. He that killeth an Ox, is as if he slew a man; (saith God) he that sacrificeth a Lamb, as if he cut off a Dogs neck; he that offereth up an oblation, as if he offered Swines blo•d: and yet there, God speaks of the sacrifices of Judah, not of Israel. Let the sacrifices be for the matter of them, what ⟨p. 360⟩