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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.
1Natural conscience telleth us that when we have to do with God in our services, that great things are suitable to a great God. Your Papists,2 in times of straights, they have a kind of praying that they appoint for forty hours together; but it is in their own way, they will be abundant enough in that. Many of you think much to spend a quarter of an hour in a morning or in an evening in seeking God in your families;3 when superstitious and Idolatrous people are abundant in those services, in seeking God in their own way.
1Natural conscience telleth us that when we have to do with God in our services, that great things are sutable to a great God. Your Papists,2 in times of straights, they have a kind of praying that they appoint for fourty hours together; but it is in their own way, they will be abundant enough in that. Many of you think much to spend a quarter of an hour in a morning or in an evening in seeking God in your families;3 when superstitious and Idolatrous people are abundant in those services, in seeking God in their own way.
- 1Reason.
- 2Papists.
- 3Family Duties
But observe it, though superstitious and Idolatrous people be abundant in their services to their Idols, yet they are not infinite in their services to them. But the Saints of God if their spirits be right, they are enlarged to a kind of infiniteness in Gods service. As thus, still they would know more of Gods mind, they would do more, and are never satisfied with what they do. There is no Idolatrous and superstitious person, but there are some limits that he puts himself to, and he thinks that when that task is over, when the forty hours is over, the work is done: But now here is the difference between a natural work and a spiritual; A natural work is always a limited work;