There Is Work To Be Done

Come va mi amici'

Uncle Donnie ran across this paragraph from Burroughs commentary on Hosea.
"It is the usual way of those idolaters who forsake the true worship of God, to
give themselves up to the pleasures of the flesh. Sensuality and idolatry usually
go together. When the people of Israel sacrificed to the calves, what did they?
They ate and drank, and rose up to play; that was all their work, and good
enough for the worshipping of such a god, a calf. You know the more we began
to decline in the worship of God, we began to be more sensual; there must be
proclamation to people to take their sports and delights upon the Lord's day; and
indeed it usually accompanies defection in the way of God's worship. False
worship lays not such bonds upon men's consciences for the mortifying the lusts
of the flesh as the worship of God does. Therefore those men who love to give
liberty to the flesh are soonest enticed to ways of superstitious worship. Jeremeiah,
in chapter xxiv.9, sets forth the state of those naughty Jews that were in captivity
by the similitude of a basket of rotten figs; which is agreeable to this interpretation,
that Israel was as Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, that is, rotteness, the daughter
of sensuality."
So, I begin to wonder if my worship is corrupt if not accompanied by the mortifying
of my flesh, and the corruption therein!
Marone, I gotta lot of work to do, you know what I mean?

D.