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The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs
The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs ; published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, 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.
CHAP. 5.
Some further Directions, how we should order our selves, if we should be enjoined unlawful things.
Some further Directions, how we should order our selves, if we should be injoined unlawful things.
But to give some further rules of Direction; if we should be enjoined things unlawful, and we could not in a legal way recover the power out of the hands of those that do enjoin such things, how we should order our selves.
BUt to give some further rules of Direction; if we should be enjoined things unlawful, and we could not in a legal way recover the power out of the hands of those that do injoine such things, how we should order our selves.
1. First, Do not do any thing otherwise than authority enjoins rashly: forbear as long as you can, and consult, and consider further about it, because we should loath to do any thing than that which is enjoined by tho sthat are above us. If there be any arguments to show that they may be done, we should listen to them. Some as soon as they see a thing Commanded that is forbidden. they fly upon it, before they try it, and therefore when they come to suffer they have little comfort in it: we are to try all our actions, especially when they shall seem to have any opposition against authority.