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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 7
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.
It is from hence that they are called strange children, they are strangers to God. It is not enough for them to plead, I did as my father or as my mother taught me. No, if thy parents be wicked and superstitious, and they bring thee up in wickedness and superstition, and so thou art wicked and superstitious thy self, know that notwithstanding this excuse, God looks upon thee as a strange child, thou hast no part nor portion in God, thou art an Alien, thou art estranged from God.
It is from hence that they are called strange children, they are strangers to God. It is not enough for them to plead, I did as my father or as my mother taught me. No, if thy parents be wicked and superstitious, and they bring thee up in wickedness and superstition, and so thou art wicked and superstitious thy self, know that notwithstanding this excuse, God looks upon thee as a strange child, thou hast no part nor por•ion in God, thou art an Alien, thou art estranged from God.
Children therefore had need to examine their parents ways and actions: And above all, Use. the children of superstitious people, for there is nothing more natural in succession, in a line, than Idolatry and superstition. Never plead thus then, we do but as our forefathers have done. That place we have in Peter, one would think should be a Scripture for ever to stop the mouth of that plea, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. We are not redeemed by gold and silver, nor such kind of things, from our vain conversation, received by tradition from our fathers; but by the blood of Jesus Christ that immaculate Lamb. Mark the text; that the being redeemed, from our vain conversation received by tradition from our fathers, is so great a mercy that it cost the blood of Jesus Christ.1 If God accounteth it such a mercy as that He is willing to lay down the blood of His Son to purchase that mercy for a poor creature, shall not this creature prize this mercy? And yet you think it rather to be a mercy to go on in these ways that you have received by tradition from your fathers, and you think it a great plea because you have this by tradition from your fathers: Mark what you do, I say those