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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.
9. The ninth is the bondage of human Ceremonies; we know that is a heavy bondage: The bondage of the Ceremonies of the Law was great. And the Apostle said Acts, 15.10. It was a Yoke, that neither they nor their Fathers could bear. But the yoke of the Papists is a great deal heavier. If we were to choose to to be under all the Ceremonies of the Law, which the Jews were under, which the Apostle said was a yoke that we nor our Fathers were able to bear, or to be under the Ceremonies of the Papists, if we did choose according to wisdom, we should rather choose to be under all the Ceremonies of the Jews: Yet if we read the 4. of Gal. we shall see it was a great privilege to be delivered from them. And if we were under the power of any to appoint religious Ceremonies in the Church. We have no benefit by the purchase of Christ to deliver us from the Ceremonial Law, for it is a great deal better and easier to be under the Ceremonies of the Law then to have any man appoint Ceremonies; in several respects.
9. The ninth is the bondage of human Ceremonies; we know that is a heavy bondage: The bondage of the Ceremonies of the Law was great. And the Apostle said Acts, 15.10. It was a Yoke, that neither they nor their Fathers could beare. But the yoak of the Papists is a great deale heavier. If we were to chuse to to be under al the Ceremonies of the Law, which the Jews were under, which the Apostle said was a yoak that we nor our Fathers were able to beare, or to be under the Ceremonies of the Papists, if we did choose according to wisdom, we should rather chuse to be under al the Ceremonies of the Jews: Yet if we read the 4. of Gal. we shal see it was a great priviledg to be delivered from them. And if we were under the power of any to appoint religious Ceremonies in the Church. We have no benefit by the purchase of Christ to deliver us from the Ceremonial Law, for it is a great deale better and easier to be under the Ceremonies of the Law then to have any man appoint Ceremonies; in several respects.