A30574:1157
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.
But now though we might name many other stalks of Hemlock, yet certainly take this Caution along with you.
Every man in such times of distraction wherein we live,1 must account to suffer something, things cannot be carried on with that equity as if all things were settled among us, therefore though we may in an humble and peaceable way make our moans one to another, and seek to inform those that are in Power, and Petition, yet it ought to be our care ⟨p. 377⟩what ever we suffer in our particular,2 to preserve what we can the honour of our Supreme Court; better many particulars suffer hard things than the honour of that should not be kept up; for by not keeping up that we make way to suffer worse things than ever yet we have done: for how would we have help when we meet with Wrong and Injustice?3 Under God there are but three ways, two extremes, and one middle: for men to have right in case of Injustice. The two extremes they are (besides our appeal to God) I speak to men, whereby a man can have any thought to get help against Injustice.
Every man in such times of distraction wherein we live,1 must account to suffer something, things cannot be carried on with that equity as if all things were setled among us, therefore though we may in an humble and peaceable way make our moans one to another, and seek to inform those that are in Power, and Petition, yet it ought to be our care ⟨p. 377⟩what ever we suffer in our particular,2