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The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
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The second reason, is taken from the example of many worthy men recorded in Scripture. Jacob the Patriarch fled from the presence of his brother Esau into Haran, to Laban, Gen. 27. and again, from thence to the land of his fathers. Gen. 31. Moses, after he had slain the Egyptian, fled out of Egypt into Midian, where he lived 40. years, Exod. 2. And this was no rash flight, but a work of faith, Heb. 11. 27. Obadiah the governor of Ahab's house, hid a hundred men of the Lords Prophets, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water, when Jezebel would have destroyed them, 1. King. 18. 13. Elijah being in fear of his life, fled from Jezebel into Mount Horeb, 1. King. 19. 3. Again, in the N. Testament, our Saviour Christ being in danger, withdrew himself, John 10. 39. and that sundry times, till the hour of his passion was come. Paul, when the Jews took counsel together to kill him, was let down by the brethren in a basket through a wall in Damascus. Act. 9. 25. And when the Grecians went about to slay him, he was brought by the brethren to Caesarea and sent to Tarsus, ver. 29. 30. Again, being in danger, he used Christian policy to save himself. For, by saying he was a Pharisee, he made a division between his accusers, the Pharisees and Sadducees, and so escaped. Act. 23. 6. 7. And if that were lawful for him to do, then is it also lawful for a man, by flight ⟨p. 370⟩to save himself, in case of danger, whether he be a private man, or a Pastor.
The second reason, is taken from the example of many worthy men recorded in Scripture. Iacob the Patriarch fled from the presence of his brother Esau into Haran, to Laban,