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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 6
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.
When in our sacrifices (that are typified by those legal sacrifices) in our prayers, there we seem to tender up unto God our parts, our abilities, our inventions, our expressions, our wits, our memories, and the strength of our bodies: But now when we have done all, saith God, All these parts and all that is come from you all this while in your prayers, I do not own them, these are none of mine, they are all your own. This is a sad thing.
When in our sacrifices (that are typified by those legal sacrifices) in our prayers, there we seem to tender up unto God our parts, our abilities, our inventions, our expressions, our wits, our memories, and the strength of our bodies: But now when we have done all, saith God, All these parts and all that is come from you all this while in your prayers, I do not own them, these are none of mine, they are al your own. This is a sad thing.
There is no such way to put an excellency upon any thing we have, upon our parts, and abilities, and estates, as this, To tender them up first unto God, and if God shall please to own them, then to receive them again out of Gods hands; we shall ⟨p. 405⟩then receive them with abundance of sweetness and excellency. But here, he calleth them, Their flocks and their herds, though they were tendered unto God in sacrifice, yet He will not say, they are His, but their own. Thus it is with all Hypocrites and formal and superstitious persons in what they tender unto God.1 Self is the principle of what you do and therefore all your services remain your own, you serve your self rather than God in them.
- 1What is done out of self-love is our own.What is done out of selfe-love is our own.