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An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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First, They have little cause to brag of their unity if we consider all; for in the mean time though many thousands of Christians, and hundreds of faithful, painful, and conscionable Ministers of God that did more service to God and his Church then ever they wil• •o, though they be banished out of their country, and put […] ••remities, and endure sore afflictions for […] ••ch of unity with them at all, though […] things they have caused many […] […]. This is no breach of unity with them.
First, They have little cause to brag of their unity if we consider all; for in the meane time though many thousands of Christians, and hundreds of faithful, painful, and conscionable Ministers of God that did more service to God and his Church then ever they wil• •o, though they be banished out of their countrey, and put 〈…〉 ••remities, and endure sore afflictions for 〈…〉 ••ch of unity with them at all, though 〈…〉 things they have caused many 〈…〉 〈…〉. This is no breach of unity with them.
But suppose by their power they could have brought all to an uniformity, in their own inventions and innovations as they desired. What then? they have little cause to brag of that unity neither. Certainly there the remedy would have been worse then the disease, and work a greater mischief. Their bragging then of unity would have been no other but thus, as if a couple of prisoners chained to a block, and kept close all day, should see others go abroad in the streets at a distance, and they should cry out to them, Why do you not take example by us? you keep at a distance one from another, do you not see that we keep close together from morning to night? pray take example by us, and do not go so distant one from another. Would not such an argument be most ridiculous? What is the reason of their union but their choine? Certainly there is the same argument in these mens pleading for that uniformity that they force men to by such a kind of Antichristian chain.