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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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.
First,1 If we take our Covenant merely upon politic grounds, we make the solemn Worship of God, wherein we express our fidelity for Reformation of Religion to be merely subservient to politic grounds, here's a falseness of heart, we are false in swearing thus, and making a Covenant; we do not sanctify the Name of God as we ought.
First,1 If we take our Covenant meerly upon politick grounds, we make the solemn Worship of God, wherein we express our fidelity for Reformation of Religion to be meerly subserviant to politick grounds, here's a falsness of heart, we are false in swearing thus, and making a Covenant; we do not sanctifie the Name of God as we ought.
- 11. For politic ends only.1. For politick ends only.
Or Secondly,1 If we put false Interpretations, we are false; when we shall make our Covenant a mere […] to our Brethren; let us consider how far any of us are guilty of this, and let the Lord judge between us: I say, when we seek to make it a snare even to our Brethren: How have ⟨p. 368⟩those been accused for the breach of this Oath which have not accorded in things that are in Controversy with our Brethren, as if this Oath were put upon all men to determine most abstruse and difficult points of Controversy, to bring men to submit to things as are very abstruse and difficult to understand; this were to make an Oath a Snare, and to take the Name of God in vain in a fearful manner: Certainly the Lord never would have Oaths put to men to this end, that men that are of different ways and opinions in Controversial things, for to be forced by way of an Oath to be of the same judgement, and to do the same things; this is a great abuse of this Oath wheresoever it is urged so far; Certainly there's no man guilty of the breach of this Oath and Covenant, that shall but endeavour what he can to understand what the mind of God is, and then to practice according as he understands, though he should mistake, as in the point of Schism in that point of the Covenant;