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A77979	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070; Thomason E588_1; ESTC R206293	515,009	635

house and from his labor that performeth not this promise It is a judgment to be shaken out of our labour but to be shaken out of such an office whereby we draw so nigh unto God as to be the mouth of God unto the people and the mouth of the people unto God again this is a sore evil Again whereas it may be said Israel had no true Priests therefore it was no judgment for them to be rejected out of that Office But to be cast out of what we seem to have that is likewise a judgment of God Luk. 8.18 Seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of God I will also forget thy children You have forgotten the Law You live so as you shew that you never think of the Law of the holiness equity and authority of it and the threats annexed unto it for if you remembred these you could not go on so quietly in a sinful way but you have cast off all the remembrance of the Law it is even worn out of your memory The book of the Law of God was lost for a long time in Judah surely in Israel much more I will forget Eti●m Ego even I. It is a sad thing to be forgotten by our friends when we are in misery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh that such a deer friend such a father or such a mother should forget me but how sad a thing is it for God to forget you Yea I will forget your children That is there shall be no succession in the Priestly office This was threatned against Eli his house 1 Sam. 2.20 It is a blessing for children of godly Ministers being godly to succeed them in the Office Observ and the contrary is a judgment Your children shall not succeed you in this Office but they shall be forgotten by me The families of wicked Ministers thorough Gods judgment are many times forgotten You have forgotten me Obser I wil forget you and your children I will not here speak how the child may suffer ●or the fathers offence we often meet with it Only now as it concerns the posterity of wicked Ministers they are thorough Gods judgment often forgotten But let not the families of Godly Ministers especially if their children be godly too Oh let not them be forgotten It is a judgment threatned upon these wicked Priests that God would forget their children therefore though men forget them it is not so evil but if there be any that have been faithful Ministers God forbid their children should be forgotten after they are dead This City hath been honored for their respect to godly Ministers but have you never forgotten their children their families that have been left behind When they were with you and preached among you you seemed to give mighty respect unto them but are there not many that belong unto their families now with you that live in a hard condition yea their children and families that are godly their widdows too how are they forgotten If the children of godly Ministers that are godly too should go unto God and complain thus would it not be a sad thing Lord thou threatnest Idolatrous Priests that forget thee that thou wouldest forget their children but Lord my father in the City was a faithful Minister he remembred thee and he was a faithful remembrancer for thy people yet we are forgotten is this according to thy Word shall the judgment that is threatned upon the children of Idolatrous Priests be the judgment upon us that are the children of faithful Ministers that we are thus forgotten though our fathers forgot not thee Look therefore into the families of godly Ministers look after their children for their fathers did not forget God do not you forget them let not the judgment that is threatned upon the children of wicked Ministers be upon them but let there be a distinction made between the children of faithful and godly Ministers and the children of Idolatrous Priests Verse 7. As they were encreased so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory into shame THe Lord is here further charging these ten Tribes but especially their Priests he aimeth at them most in this his Charge They had before rejected the knowledg of the Lord and the Lord threatned rejection of them The knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that knowledge Scientiam illam that knowledge of God in the way of his worship that he was to be worshiped at Jerusalem alone that truth was a suffering truth therefor● that truth they did reject they rejected others but especially that And in this seventh verse here is some ground of their rejection of the knowledg of God As they were encreased so they sinned against me God had encreased them they were grown first into a great multitude and as their number encreas'd so their sins encreas'd But especially that which I take to be the meaning of the holy Ghost here is As their prosperous condition encreas'd they were grown up to an height of prosperity and that was the thing made them sin against God and reject the knowledg of God The first is not to be rejected viz. As they encreased in multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Seventy turn it according to their fulness And it may be turned both waies fulness of number or fulness of their prosperous estate Obser It is a usual thing where there is encrease in number to be encrease in sin The more meat there is in the pot the more scum ariseth simile So in great Cities what a great deal of filth is there filth of sin moral filth Where there is any confluence of people at Fares and Merkets in the Country or in any Corporation what abundance of filth is there continually As there is any encrease in number usually there is encrease in sin In Churches though when they are but small at their first beginning a few called Saints they can agree wel together and go on sweetly in their way but ordinarily as they increase in number when Churches grow to any number they begin to corrupt and increase in sin They should encrease so much the more in godliness but this is the corruption of mans heart every one bringing in some corruption Therefore as there is an increase in number so in sin But because that is not the scope but the second to speak to that a little As they encreased in their prosperous estate For we are to know that at this time the ten Tribes were in a very prosperous condition they were grown rich and great and so they were increast and especially the Priests for they had the favour of Jeroboam and of the Princes For their main design was to uphold their false worship and the Priests served for their turns most therefore they countenanced those Priests of Dan and Bethel the Priests of the Calves and they flourished at this time in the Court and in the Countrey and were much increast in their prosperous estate And as

rich to pamper the flesh and care not either to have the knowledg of God in their own souls or to bring the knowledg of God unto the people but look upon them as not worth the regarding this is in a more special manner a most grievous sin How many are there amongst us at this day that study to get preferment c. and then sell away their books and never after any more mind knowledg And others if they have knowledg and learning and prize it in some respect yet in this they contemn it they prize knowledg meerly as servicable unto their lusts It is not for the beauty and excellency of the knowledg of God that they prize it so much that sweetness that they find in the knowledg of Christ that they do search to know but that they may be accounted Scholers understanding men learned men This is to despise knowledg when we seek for knowledg but in a way of service unto our lusts and such men may be charged for men that despise knowledg But further These Priests and such as were eminent in Israel rejected knowledg because they had their houses and goods and comings in amongst the ten Tribes I beseech you observe it for this concerns us I say the Priests that were amongst the ten Tribes they were setled there and had their houses and in comes and their estates there but now there was this taught that we must worship God at Jerusalem at the Temple they rejected this knowledg especially they saw that if they did imbrace that truth of worshiping God in his own way then farewel our incomes farewel our livings farewell our houses we must leave our brave dwellings and all our maintainance and go from Samaria and we must go to Judah and how shall we live there Upon this they shut their eyes against the knowledg of that very truth that should have brought them to the true worship of God Rather than they would lose their estates they would reject that knowledg And that I think to be the meaning of the holy Ghost here They despised as other knowledg Text opened so that knowledg of the true worship of God so it is turned by some Scientiam illam that kind of knowledg they rejected For they knew that these truths were suffering truths Obser Now suffering truths are truths that wil hardly go down with men nor with many a Minister they had therefore rather be ignorant of them as the holy Ghost in Ezekiel speaks of men that shut their eyes against the Sabbath so they shut their eyes against those truths that should have brought them to the true worship of God And in this case it is not enough for a man to say God knows I go not against my conscience if my conscience were convinced that such and such things must be in the worship of God if my conscience told me than this were the Word of God I would obey it But the reason they see this not to be the Word of God why their consciences tell them not so is Because they have no mind to know it they reject that knowledg it is against their case and preferment and it is suffering truth and therefore they shut their eyes against it This is no excuse Mark the judgment follows upon this Therefore I will reject you You despise knowledg I will despise you so the words may be read as well as re●ect you God scorneth wicked men as much as they scorn him Psal 18. with the froward he will deal frowardly and with the scornful he will deal scornfully that is he will laugh them to scorn What do you look upon Gods waies and worship as a vile thing Are the thruths of God vile in your eyes You are vile in Gods eyes God looks upon you and your spirits as base and contemptible as you can look upon his Worship and his Saints and Ordinances You despise knowledg and I will despise you saith God And I will r●ject you The word here translated reject that is for despising 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it hath a letter in it more than it hath in any other place in all the scripture It is a Note of Tremelius from thence there is a letter in this word in the Hebrew that is redundant that is beyond the ordinary forme of it and this is his note upon it in his Comment upon this Text It noteth saith he the extraordinary manner of Gods rejecting them Temelius he will cast them out of the hearts of his people as he doth apostate Ministers above all others God casts out apostate Ministers out of the hearts of people There is a peculiar way of Gods rejecting wicked Ministers an extraordinary way Obs more than despising and rejecting any other and there is that shame and contempt cast upon them more than any in the world That is his note upon this he will reject them with contempt Yea for ever You heard before in Luk. 6. that Christ pronounced his Disciples faithfull preachers blessed when their names were call out as evil when they were vilified by men But now mark when a Minister goes on faithfully in declaring the mind of God unto people and there be shame cast upon him blessed be that Minister but if the Minister be wicked and there be shame cast upon him that shame is a part of the curse for then he is cast out as unsavory salt and men tread upon it saies Christ Wicked men would cast out the godly but God and Gods Saint● they embrace them and they bless God for them but if you be wicked and men cast you out as unsavory salt then men contemn you then you are troden upon Yea so rejected as never to be received again Ezek. 44.13 the Priests there that did forsake the Lord when Israel forsook him most never again come neer unto God no not so much as neer unto the Priests Office A notable text that concerns you to know for your direction about receiving in wicked persons that have been wicked in ill times Perhaps now they preach good Sermons but you are to enquire what they were when others were superstitious and evil and although we are not utterly to reject them yet until there be further evidence of their repentance they are not to be received God threatneth an utter rejection of those Levits that forsook God when Israel forsook him Now the observation that I should have noted from hence is this Obser That unfaithfulness in service provokes God to cast us out of service I cannot stand to set an edge upon it And then another Note is this That it is a great judgment to be rejected from the Priests Office Obser from the Office of a Minister I will reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me To be rejected from any imployment it is a great judgment Neb. 5.13 So God shake out every man from his

him but in all love and meekness and gentleness to deal with such an one and expect that God in due time will reveal himself unto him But now when any one cometh and will make profession that they desire to know the truths of God and what his mind is but when it appeareth that there is a spirit of opposition pride a vain glorious a vain spirit Oh this is it I say which is grievous is tedious in the eyes of God and of his Saints It follows VER 5. And the Pride of Israel doth testifie to his face MArk another connexion here As there is a connexion of a spirit of whoredom and not knowing God so there is a connection of not knowing God and of the pride of Israel A double connexiō of the Text. Obser Ignorance and pride companions They know not the Lord and the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face From whence the Note is this That Ignorance and Pride useth to go together There is no men so conceited of their knowledg as many ignorant men are For the truth is where there is knowledge there a man sees that he knows but little and he is able to discover his own ignorance but an ignorant man is not able to discover his own ignorance and therefore usually he is proud You shall have many men and women too that will pretend such abundance of knowledg and their hearts are puffed up because they have got some expressions more than others have as if they were somebody had some manifestations of things to them more than others have yet come and examin things at the bottom the truth is they are ignorant of the very principles of Religion 1 Tim. 6.4 1 Tim. 6.4 applied He is proud knowing nothing saith the text and yet he speaks of those that are full of vain questions and janglings about matters of Religion that will come with such objections and curiosities of questions yet the holy Ghost saith he is proud and knows nothing And certainly the man that is there spoken of is a man as much conceited of his knowledg as you can conceive a man to be as appears plainly in the text But now wisdom and humility Use from the contrary they likewise go together too Prov. 11.2 With the lowly is wisdom If the heart be brought under God put in a gracious humble lowly frame with the lowly there is wisdom the Lord delighteth to reveal himself to the humble The pride of Israel doth testifie to his face The Seventy they reade the words otherwise than you have them in your books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The injury and the wrong that Israel hath done unto God shall be brought down shall be humbled for I suppose their meaning in that translation i● this that whereas Israel by his wicked waies hath wronged God hath been injurious unto God he shall be humbled for it he shall be brought down and made to know what it is for him to wrong God so as he hath done And indeed those that do corrupt Gods worship they are the greatest wrongers of God in the world Obser they do the greatest injury unto God that can be But we may safely keep unto that which is translated in your books The English reading as more suitable to the Original than that of the Seventy and then the Note is this That Idolaters are proud men and Idolatry is a proud sin Obs Id●laters proud men For that is the scope of the Prophet here chiefly to rebuke them for their false worship though he speaks of other sins yet that is the main O the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face Israel they will have their own way of worship and forsake God O proud hearts that they have Idolatry is a proud sin In all disobedience against God there is much pride pride is not only in cloathes and in fine things but in disobedience against God there is the pride of the heart And as in all sin there is pride so in a more peculiar manner in the sin of Idolatry As First Idolaters in their way 1. The despising the true worship of God they look upon the true worship of God as a mean thing as a thing below them beneath them Oh their way of worship is the pompous brave and gallant way but for the true worship of God that is poor low and mean All your superstitious and Idolatrous people look thus upon the simplicity of the waies and worship of God 2. They put more on the creature than God hath put Places Secondly And then there is pride in it in this That a wretched worm should dare to presume to put more upon a creature than God hath ever done to put more upon places than God and nature hath ever done God hath made them thus and thus but I will put them higher than God hath done I will put an excellency a spiritual excellency a divine excellency upon them for so Idolaters take upon themselves to do and this is horrible pride 3. They prescribe God in worship Thirdly It is pride because they presume to prescribe God which way he shall be worshiped The worship of God is the dearest thing he hath in the world and for any creature to take upon him to prescribe which way he shall be worshiped this is the most notorious pride in the world 4. Honor their own because theirs Lastly Herein appeareth the pride of Idolatry that it honors what is a mans own because it is his own rather than what is Gods Do not you see it apparantly in all superstitious Idolatrous people As in that one thing of daies God hath set one day apart for the honoring of himself and for the celebrating both of the birth Lords day death resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ and of the whol work of our redemption How is that day slighted neglected made nothing of But what a horrible wickedness is it accounted not to keep that which man setteth apart by himself Holy daies that day which is a mans own Men will set apart a day for the honor of Christ and Oh Christ will be quite forgotten if that day be forgotten and Christ is much dishonored if that day be not regarded I appeal unto you Who sets it apart whose is it Is it Gods or is it yours Gods Certainly if there were such a thing so acceptable unto God as men take it to be we should have some little hint somewhat in the book of God of such a thing We have the story of all the Acts of the Apostles what they did in several places and there is not the least mention of any such thing of their honoring Christ by setting a day apart for the celebration of his nativity We have the Epistles unto several Churches upon several occasions and we find no notice that they ever took of any such thing in any Church they established

the holy Ghost should say I require mercy and not sacrifice and the inward worship of God faith and knowledg rather than any natural worship The Notes from hence are these The duties of the first and second Table are to be joyned together Obs 1 Mercy and sacrifice knowledg of God and burnt offerings when in their place are acceptable therefore let us take heed of separating that which God hath joyned Obs 2 The knowledg of God is a most excellent thing This is that which sanctifies Gods Name and manifests him to be very glorious in the world Paul accounted all things but loss and dung in comparison of the excellencie of this knowledg of Christ Use Instruct your children and servants in this knowledg else how can God have his glory from them how few are there which glorifie God as God and the reason is because of the ignorance which is in their minds Eph. 4.18 Obs 3 Men may be very diligent in instituted worship and yet very ignorant none so acted in their instituted worship as these people ye● none so ignorant as they Use That you are forward in instituted worship it is your commendation but take heed this be not your sin to be ignorant of fundamental things It is the great design of the Devil to set up the man of sin to keep men in darkness and ignorance many who think themselves and would be thought to be opposers of Antichrist even in this by their questioning of fundamentals of Religion and disputings about their new Opinions they raise him up when as the truth is it is the way the Devil useth to darken the truth of Christ and Religion by casting a vail over it therefore you that are guilty of this distemper take heed though you have light in some things yet take heed that a vail be not drawn over those things which do more neerly concern you and are of greater consequence Obs 4 Soul-worship must be preferred before all other worship we must not give God a carrion service a carkeise without a soul strong are the expressions in Scripture which are used against such outside formal worship Isa 1.11 12 13. God professes of them that he regards them not he is full of them his soul loaths them they are iniquity and a trouble to him they are looked upon as a burden to him such as God will hide his eyes from and when they make many prayers he will not hear them in this one Scripture we have fourteen expressions against outside formal duties Isa 1.11 12 13. there are 14. expressions against formality besides those four which we find in Isa 66.3 Thus you have the mind of God in this short but full sentence Now God forbid that what hath been said out of this Scripture should be abused to liberty in a sinful way VER 7. For they like men have transgressed the Covenant HEre is an argument that mercy in the former verse is to be understood in a large sense Why Because it is the very substance of the Covenant they have been hard-hearted cruel and unmerciful and thereby they have transgressed the Covenant I am merciful in the Covenant and my grace is free and full to sinners there but they have transgressed the Covenant by being cruel and unmerciful for they like men have transgressed the Covenant Like men That is like Adam these men have sinned after Expos 1 the similitude of Adams transgression Rom. 15.14 speaks of those who had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression But these as they have old Adam in them so they have dealt with me as he did and as he for his sin was cast out of Paradise so these men have deserved to be cast out of Expos 2 the good Land But Vatablus Tremelius Vatablus Tremel and others reade the words thus They have broken my Covenant as a man they thought that I had been as their fellow creature as they made it their practice to break covenants with men so they thought to do with God so they have transgressed my Covenant This sense may be taken and so the note of Observation would be seasonable That the cause of breach of Covenant with God is Obser because we consider not that it is with God that we make our Covenants But the words are more usually read as in our books But Expos 3 they like men have transgressed my Covenant that is Not as I who like a God have kept Covenant but they like such men as themselves i. e. weak unconstant frail unfaithful creatures have transgressed Job 31.33 Object But may not this seem to be an excusing or diminution of their sin to say They like men implying the common frailty of humane nature have transgressed Answ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No 't is rather an aggrav●tion of their sin Therfore the word here translated Men is used for man in his corrupt estate for weak men frail men not men at their strength but weakness and so distinct from that which signifies generous and strenuous men and so the comparison is not only between God and man but between the several degrees of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. Or thus They have transgressed my Covenant like men That is not like my people Saints that are of my Church they have not transgressed my Covenant so Their waies have been the waies of ordinary men and as such they have transgressed my Covenant The two last senses are principally meant here Covenant with God 3 fold 1. with Adam 2. with Abraham 3 with Israel My Covenant The Covenant of God we usually divide into two parts but the Scripture to me seems to hold forth a threefold Covenant the one of Works that which was made with Adam in Paradise The other Covenant is that which was made with Abraham the Covenant of Grace the tenor of which is this I will be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee Then there was a Covenant which was made with them upon mount Sinai Now the Covenant here cannot be meant imediatly of the Covenant of works nor of the Covenant of grace for this Covenant here implyed is one especially made with them and therfore must be understood of that at mount Sinai made many hundred years after the others yet it hath reference to that of Works and of Grace And were this knot rightly understood and untied the Antinomians and we might easily be reconciled for we grant that Believers are delivered from the Law in respect of the power of it as condemning from the riger of it but not from the duties of the Law for the things commanded in the Law were duties before the Law was given the Law was written in the hearts of the Saints from the beginning But the opening of this point would require a whol Exercise and I shall reserve this to some other time Now then the Covenant which they transgressed Expos was the Covenant at