A25470:571
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.
Alas, my brethren, methinks the interest of Piety, and the interest of Conscience, and the interest of the eternal God, judge of quick and dead, should swallow up all the interests of the world. If Nebuchadnezzar himself should set up a golden Image, and would have it worshipped, I tell you 'tis not treason for Sidrach, Meshech and Abednego to say, We are not careful oh King to answer thee in this matter, Dan. 3.16.
Alas, my brethren, methinks the interest of Piety, and the interest of Conscience, and the interest of the eternall God, judge of quick and dead, should swallow up all the interests of the world. If Nebuchadnezzar himself should set up a golden Image, and would have it worshipp'd, I tell you 'tis not treason for Sidrach, Meshech and Abednego to say, Wee are not carefull oh King to answer thee in this matter, Dan. 3.16.
Besides, let not men deceive themselves, for such persons as can so easily betray the interest of God, will never be afraid, if opportunity serve, to oppose the sovereignty of man, whose authority he bears, and are not indeed Hushai's, but Ziba's, not Davids friends, but Davids flatterers.
Besides, let not men deceive themselves, for such persons as can so easily betray the interest of God, will never be afraid, if opportunity serve, to oppose the soveraignty of man, whose authority he bears, and are not indeed Hushai's, but Ziba's, not Davids friends, but Davids flatterers.
4. By sufferance, by permitting the sins of others, so we become guilty, by suffering others to sin, whom we are bound in duty, and may be able by authority to hinder: and thus as in the former particular, we are guilty of Magistrates sins, in this particular Magistrates oft-times become guilty of our sins. Kings and Rulers, and subordinate Magistrates become oft-times deeply guilty of their peoples sins, namely, by sufferance, by tolerating Errors, and Heresies, and Blasphemies on the one hand, or by suffering wickedness and profaneness on the other.