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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 4 › They set up Kings, but not by me
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.
Now though I do not altogether approve of what he hath said, because at least the case between People and ⟨p. 17⟩Princes now is different from what it was; then God challenged a peculiar Prerogative over them for tendering their Government, yet thus far in Divinity is true; There is more reason that people should now have more power to cast off Tyranny than there was, because now none comes *to Government over others but by* Agreement, therefore if the Agreement and Law of the Country be that they shall be elect and not hereditary, they are so: if that the males shall only inherit, he shall only inherit: and so if the Law of the Country were for delivering themselves from tyranny, so far certainly God allows it in His Word.
Now though I do not altogether approve of what he hath said, because at least the case between People and ⟨p. 17⟩Princes now is different from what it was; then God chalenged a peculiar Prerogative over them for tendering their Government, yet thus far in Divinity is true; There is more reason that people should now have more power to cast off Tyranny than there was, because now none comes *to Government over others but by* Agreement, therefore if the Agreement and Law of the Country be that they shall be elect and not haereditary, they are so: if that the males shall only inherit, he shall only inherit: and so if the Law of the Country were for delivering themselves from tyranny, so far certainly God allows it in His Word.
- *viz. orderly and ordinarily.
- *Scil. formal or tacit.Scil. formal or tacite.