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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.
Answer, We know a mans country may be left on many occasions as for merchandising, to get estates to maintain their families, so Ruth and Abraham and his Sons did: For learning as the Queen of ⟨p. 71⟩Sheba did; surely then for Religion: It is true if we see any opportunity of setting up Religion in our own Country, we are bound to set it up there rather then any where else, but if not we may leave our country, as the Eunuch travelled and left his country to come to Jerusalem for Religions sake. Besides;
Answer, We know a mans country may be left on many occasions as for merchandising, to get estates to maintaine their families, so Ruth and Abraham and his Sonns did: For learning as the Queen of ⟨p. 71⟩Sheba did; surely then for Religion: It is true if we see any opportunity of setting up Relgion in our own Countrie, we are bound to set it up there rather then any where else, but if not we may leave our country, as the Evnuch travelled and left his countrie to come to Jerusalem for Religions sake. Besides;
God hath a great work of providence in scattering his people, and had it not been for persecution it is not like, the word of God should have been spread abroad in divers countries.
Objection, 2, But should none stay to suffer.