A30575:1643
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
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God took him away in the strength of his Parts and Graces, that he might not lose in the reputation of his Ministry or Piety, as some have before their *death.
- *Solve senescentem maturè sanus Equum, ne peccet ad extremum videndus & ilia ducat. Horat. Jer. 57. […]Solve senescentem maturè sanus Equum, ne peccet ad extremum videndus & ilia ducat. Horat. Jer. 57. 〈…〉
Also; though we cannot affirm, as one of Josiah, That he was taken away (Ne malitia mutaret intellectum ipsius) lest the evil of the time should have wrought upon his temper: yet we may say, as another doth, He was taken away from the evil to come.
Moreover: It is not an unuseful Note, that the Preface to the *Tigurine Bible hath, whereof the inference is, That whilst in some weighty point we labour for great exactness and preparation, we are either disabled by our diligence, or prevented by our tardiness and delay, whereas moderate preparation seasonably applied, might be more useful to the Church, than such exactness so deferred. Which is not spoken to reflect any thing on our reverend Author, but to admonish others, ut maturens.
Moreover: It is not an unuseful Note, that the Preface to the *Tigurine Bible hath, whereof the inference is, That whilst in some weighty point we labor for great exactness and preparation, we are either disabled by our diligence, or prevented by our tardiness and delay, whereas moderat preparation seasonably applied, might be more useful to the Church, than such exactness so deferred. Which is not spoken to reflect any thing on our reverend Author, but to admonish others, ut maturens.