A25470:1109
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
2. They are as drones in an hive of Bees; they live of the labours of others, but bring in nothing to the stock, as all the other Bees do. They are as barren Trees, which receive sap from the earth, but yield no fruit;1 unprofitable burdens of the earth, whose sad doom ye may read, Luke 13.7.
2. They are as drones in an hive of Bees; they live of the labours of others, but bring in nothing to the stock, as all the other Bees do. They are as barren Trees, which receive sap from the earth, but yeeld no fruit;1 unprofitable burthens of the earth, whose sad doom yee may read, Luke 13.7.
- 1Tellu•is inutile pondus.
3. Many of them are of no particular Church, nor of any civil society, but out of all Government in Church and State. In this and the former respect they may justly be styled Children of Belial, 1without yoke.
3. Many of them are of no particular Church, nor of any civil society, but out of all Government in Church and State. In this and the former respect they may justly bee stiled Children of Belial, 1without yoak.
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