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A30574	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070B; ESTC R36308	388,238	512

earth-quakes all these should be but the beginning of sorrows Secondly God expects from men that though they be not sensible of his threats yet when he begins with them in way of execution of his wrath they should begin a little Oh! it were well with us if we did prevent Gods heavy wrath by our repentance Numbers 16. 46. Moses said unto Aaron Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar and put on Incense and go quickly to the Congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun Oh! how should we all make hast we cannot say only the plague is begun the plague of Civil War which is the greatest of all kind of plagues but it hath gone on a great way But to proceed VER 11. Because Ephraim hath made many Altars to sin Altars shall be unto him to sin IT was the Charge of God in Scripture That there should be but one Altar for Sacrifice and there was another Altar that afterwards was made for Incense and no further in Deut. 12. 3. and 5. ver There we have the Charge of God that there should be none other made You shall overthrow their Altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and you shall hew down the graven Images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place c. And then Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt offering in every place that thou seest but in the place which the Lord shall chuse c. And in Deut. 27. 5. Thou shalt build an Altar to the Lord thy God an Altar of stones thou shalt not lift up an Iron tool upon them And according to which Joshua did in Joshua 8. 30. and hence in Joshua 22. 11. Now for the Altar of God I shall first shew you a little the meaning of them and then the reason why God would have but this one Altar in Exod. 20. 24. there is an injunction of God for the Altar of Sacrifice An Altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offering c. Here observe that That when God would have an Altar made for sacrifice it must be but an Altar of earth but if it should be of stone Take heed that thou liftest not up a tool upon it Why one would think that to carve and paint the stones and do any thing to make it brave would do better than to have the stones rough No saith God whatsoever you may think that to make my Altar brave by carving of it and painting it If you do but lift up a tool upon it you polute my Altar all mans devices in the worship of God though they be never so pompous they do but polute Gods Worship And they must not go up upon steps quite contrary to our high Altars that their nakedness be not discovered therein Noting that when we come into the presence of God we should take heed of our spiritual nakedness and the pride and vanity of our spirits in prayer God would have them make an Altar so as they might not go up upon steps lest their nakedness should be discovered But now in Exod. 27. 1 2. there you shall find an Altar of Shittim wood overlaid with Brass you will say Why was the first with earth and the other with brass The reason was because that the one was to be made when they were in an unsetled condition and the other to be made afterwards when they were in a more stated condition than formerly and that it might endure a long time But mark it must be according to Gods direction except God doth reveal that it should be of Shittim wood and overlaid with brass they were not to do it And then the second Altar was the Altar of burnt Incense and that you have in Exod. 30. 1 2 3. verses and that was to be overlaid with pure Gold that of brass it was because there was sin offerings to be offered upon it but now the Altar of Incense it was the Altar that was just before the Vail against the Mercy-seat where there was only Incense offered which was to signifie the Intercession of Jesus Christ presenting his Merits and the Prayers of all his people to the Father the prayers of the Saints are compar'd to Incense and there 's many things observable about the Altar of God it is said that there should be four horns and in Revel chap. 9. ver 13. I heard a voice from the four horns of the Golden Altar which is before God Now Saint John speaks of after-times that should be he heard a voice from the four horns of the Altar that is from all the prayers of the Saints that were in the four corners of the earth there came a voice from them all and did sound and did great things in the world Certainly my Brethren the prayers of Gods Saints in all the corners of the world is that that makes the world ring It was a Speech of a learned man If there be but one sigh come from a gracious heart it fills the ears of God so that God hears nothing else nay that 's observable in Revel 8. 3. about this Altar of Incense And another Angel came and stood at the Altar having a golden Censer and there was given unto him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the Throne Thus we see that in our time we are to make use of this golden Altar that is before the Throne all our prayers are to be offered up upon that which was a Type of Jesus Christ and our prayers except they be mingled with the Incense which Christ did offer himself upon the golden Altar cannot be accepted and likewise that 's very observable about it that we reade in Exod. 30. 3. that there was a Crown of Gold round about it to typifie the Intercession of Christ and the prayers of the Saints you may see by this that Christs Intercession and the prayers of the Saints that came from faithful hearts are accounted the very glory of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ accounts it his dignity and glory to make Intercession for his People and to take the poor prayers of his People and present them to his Father he makes account that his Crown is set upon his head when you exercise your faith upon Jesus Christ that Christ might present your prayers with his Intercession to the Father then you set the Crown upon Jesus Christs head but when you think to be heard your selves and do not exercise your faith upon Christ you do as it were take off the Crown from the head of Jesus Christ And that 's very observable the difference between this Altar that was here enjoyn'd to be made by Moses and so was afterwards made and the Altar that we

Riches if all the men in the world were put together and all the wisdom and power of Angels joyned to it to extract all excellency in all things in all creatures and to make that which should have all created excellency in it yet this surely could not be a God to us I say if we conceive all art skill power and riches of all the world brought together into one man yea all the skill and power of Angels put into him too and if he were able to make an extract of all the excellencies of all creatures and put into one thing yet this could not be a God unto us because it was made And shall we say further God himself by his infinite power cannot make any thing to be a God to us I say God himself by his infinite power cannot make any thing to be a God to us if he himself were made he could not be God to us nay if God himself were made he could not be God therefore surely that which the workman hath made cannot be a God How vile then are our hearts and how do we debase our selves to subject our selves to every vanity as if it were a God when as that all the power in God himself cannot raise a created excellency to that height as to be a God to us how vain is the heart of men that makes pleasure their god as the voluptuous his belly that makes money his god as the covetous that makes honor and the applause of men as the ambitious to be a god unto us Bernice and Agrippa came with great Pomp they came with much Phansie as the word signifies the excellency that al their pomp had it was but that that phansie put upon them In this God shewes the excellency of an Immortal Soul that it is in that excellency that only an Infinite Eternal being that is of Himself can be a God to us Again This is an argument against the Idol of the Mass a vile Priest a filthy Whoremaster makes it a God What a Deity is that that is from his maker Is there any greater stumbling-block to Jews Turks or Heathens to keep them from Christian Religion than this That Christians should make their God and eat him when they have done That 's the first Argument It is no God because the workman made it Secondly But the Calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces No God surely He speaks here with indignation it is not God it is a Clalf as he doth in that of the Psalmist he made a Calf that eat grass It shall be broken in pieces it shal not be able to help it self much less help them it shal be as Dagon before the Ark broken all to pieces Hierom upon the place saith that he learned from an Hebrew this word broken in pieces the word is not a Verb but a Noun shall be breakings in pieces he learned from an Hebrew that this word signified a thin web like Spiders webs in the air As you see in some times of the year in the Fields thin Webs and upon the grass thin webs like Spiders webs that presently dissolves into Attoms so that their Calf shal be like unto those thin Webs like unto Spiders Webs that dissolves it self and comes to nothing All the confidence and hopes in any thing we set up in the place of God it 's such unto us What difference is there between such a thing and a strong Rock and an high Tower such as God is to his people And again The word signifies Saw-dust that comes from Timber that is sawn and so it shal be broken in pieces Look as the Calf in the wilderness was broken even to dust to pouder and Moses made the people drink of it so God will serve this Calf And then further observe Idols are to be broken in pieces so God commanded Exod. 34. 13. Deut. 7. 5. Ezek. 20. 7. with many other Scriptures and thus godly Magistrates have ever done broke Idols in pieces And blessed be God for that that hath been done of late among us that so many Idols and that great Idol that was in the eminent place of the City that God put a spirit into those that were in Athority to break it in pieces it must be done by the Magistrate I remember Austin in his sixt Sermon upon Christs Sermon speaking of that place in Deut. 1. 5. first saith he You must possess the Land and then you must overthrow their Altars And then notes That those which have the possession of the Land as now those Publick places men only in Authority have the possession of them and therfore it is for them to break the Idols in pieces In the City of Basil we reade that every Ash-wednesday as they call it is observed a Feastival instead of the Popish Fast on that day because of the burning of Popish Images and they account it a great mercy And though we have no such warrant to observe such a day as an Holy day yet certainly as a day of an outward civil rejoycing we have cause to observe those times wherein notorious and abominable Idols have been broken in pieces Again Whatsoever it is that is subject to be broken in pieces certainly we are not to make it to be our God Now all creatures in the world are subject to breaking your estates are in danger to be broken in pieces therefore they are not Gods that 's the argument of the holy Ghost here yea it may be many of your estates are broken in pieces already Oh what poor Gods were those that you made to your selves before and so any creature whatsoever therefore Oh let 's trust in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Isa 26. 4. The last note from hence is this That the putting too much upon a creature the bringing a creature too neer to God and Deifying of it makes way for the destruction of that creature The Calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces because it was made an Idol If you will make use of your estates as a servant to you to fit you for Gods service you might keep it but if you would set it up in Gods place it is just with God it should be broken in pieces Whatsoever you set your hearts upon and make a God unto you it 's just with God it should be broken in pieces if you set your husband your wife your child your friend in the place of God it 's the only way to undo them to undo them in respect of you at best Many great Instruments of God God hath been fain to break them to pieces because that men have set them up in the place of God and made even Gods of them It follows VER 7. For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind SOwing is a laborious work and this Idolatrous people were very laborious took a great deal

and those that have oppressed us that they should have their full power over us again oh our bondage would be seven fold more than it is And yet what cause have we to have our hearts tremble and shake when we think of our abuse of the beginning of Deliverance that we had but of all judgments let us pray to be delivered from that judgment that we may never go back again to our prisons But just with God it is that those who inherit their progenitors sins they should inherit their progenitors judgments You continue in their sins you shall have their Judgements also But were they ever carried into Egypt was this threat ever fulfilled No They were not carried captive into Egypt but they fled into Egypt for Refuge and there they lived and died miserably Hence observe All places are places of misery when God forsakes a people As all places are comfortable when God is with a people Many men take their course to seek to refuge themselves to help themselves and perhaps they have what they would have in part but when they have had what they would have even the having of what they desire proves to be the executiō of the wrath of God upon them you have a mind to go to Egypt you shall return to Egypt saith God It follows in the last verse VER 14. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker THEY have forgotten their Maker but I 'le remember them saith God When men think least of God then is Gods time to come upon them for their sins when they are in the greatest security of all whereas if you would remember your sins God might forget them or if you would remember God your sins should not be remembred but you forgetting God your sins are remembred It is an abominable thing for us to forget God by whom we had our memory by whom we are remembred we should never have been thought of if God had not given us what we have and therefore for us not to think of God it is a vile sin Now God is forgotten when he is not honored minded as our confidence help refuge our only good when he is not obeyed if we do but remember sin we cannot but honor him How many forget what manifestations once they had of God they are passed by from them and other things take up their thoughts Oh! what an appearing was there of God to many of your souls heretofore and what conference between God and your souls what lustre of Gods Spirit upon you and you thought you should never forget those things but now other things are in your hearts Oh! such men and women have cause to fear that they are under much wrath that they should forget their Maker God challenges remembrance under this title Remember thy Creator in the daies of thy youth There 's no creature but the rational creature that can reflect upon the cause of their being the first cause and therefore God would not lose the honor from this creature Indeed the Ox knows his owner and the Ass his Masters crib the beasts can take notice of those that bring them good things but to reflect upon the cause of their first being I say that 's proper to the rational creature and therefore it is an honor that God expects from you and will not lose it The word here Creator their Maker it is not now meant for Gods giving them their being but Gods advancing and blessing of them so as to bring them to that happy condition that now they were in They have forgotten their Maker Oh they have forgotten that God that hath advanced them So I find the words used in 1 Sam. 12. 6. The Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron but the words in the Original are the Lord that made Moses and Aaron that is when God call'd them to the publick work God made them Indeed for a man to be call'd to publick service is a great honor that God puts upon a man God makes a man then as many times we use that Phrase our selves if a man be raised to any preferment we say such a man is made for ever Oh that man which God casts his favor upon and delights to use in publick service that man is a made-man But they have forgotten the Lord that made them That 's the Note from hence It 's Gods favor that makes a man You have an excellent Scripture for this in Isa 43. 7. I have created him saith God for my glory I have formed him yea I have made him Here 's these three words together God doth not satisfie himself in this I have given him his being or all that he hath but he makes use of of these three several words to signifie how all our good comes from God I do not know such an expression we have in Scripture I have brought him out of nothing then secondly I have formed him I have put beauty and glory upon him yea and thirdly I have made him I have raised him to the height of all God hath created us all but hath he formed us We are to look at Gods forming as well as at his creation how God forms and fashions us unto his own will They have forgotten God their Maker That should have been the other Note That the greater height of excellency God raises any man to the more vile and wicked is the sin of forgetting God when they are advanced Many men will remember God when they are low but when God hath advanced them then they forget him and that 's worse But it follows And have built Temples How is God forgotten and they build Temples to the honor of God You accuse us of forgetting God our Maker What People in the world doth rememember God so as we do when we are at such charges as we are at The word that is translated Temples it signifies Palaces The Church is indeed Gods Palace but note from hence That when God is worshiped in any way but his own then God is forgotten Papists they set up Images and they say it is to put them in mind of God but the truth is they forget God in it Again When mens hearts depart most desperatly and furthest off from God they are many times very forward in superstitious worship As we know it in the primitive times the hearts of men did close most with the power of godliness and were more sincere in their worship but afterwards when they came to have peace in and after Constantines time when they had Temples then they forgot God most and grew superstitious When the Christians worshiped God in Dens and Caves of the earth they remembred God more than when they had glorious Temples built for them Men that have departed from God and have guilty consciences they must have something to satisfie their consciences Of late our Kingdom how desperatly was it departing from