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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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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 11 › Verse 4: VERS. 4.
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.
Nay, Suppose they be truths, yet except they be necessary, 1let not men be instrumental in imposing them upon them: If there be a necessity then there's no plea, but some men are so happy (if I may so call it) as that they have a latitude in their judgements, that which way soever the times turn they can find out a distinction 2to help themselves, that so their fair necks should never come under a yoke, so it falls out that always their judgments suits with the times.
Nay, Suppose they be truths, yet except they be necessary, 1let not men be instrumental in imposing them upon them: If there be a necessity then there's no plea, but some men are so happy (if I may so call it) as that they have a latitude in their judgements, that which way soever the times turn they can find out a distinction 2to help themselves, that so their fair necks should never come under a yoke, so it fals out that alwaies their judgments sutes with the times.
- 1Answ. Such Truths as are not of necessity, not to be imposed
- 2Men of latitude in judgment.
I will not condemn these men, for possibly it may be God gives them to see further than others do, but yet, by this they have ease: but now were these men ingenuous, they should consider their brethren thus. I have a Latitude, and I could go along with the countenance of the times as they were before, the former times, and now the times are changed, I can go in these times too; But some 1