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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Itching ears are bad, (2 Tim. 4.3.) Trying ears are good. You will not swallow your meat till you have chewed and tasted it; nor should you swallow words, till you have tried them; why else have we ears to hear? why are we trusted with reason to judge things with? or with rules to judge them by? There is no greater Tyranny in the World, then to command a man to believe (by an implicit faith) as others believe; or to impose our opinions and assertions upon those that hear them, and not to give them liberty to try them. This is to be at once (as the Apostle James expresseth it, (Chap. 3.1.) many Masters, or many Masters where we should not be one.
Itching eares are bad, (2 Tim. 4.3.) Trying eares are good. You will not swallow your meat till you have chewed and tasted it; nor should you swallow words, till you have tryed them; why else have we eares to heare? why are we trusted with reason to judge things with? or with rules to judge them by? There is no greater Tyranny in the World, then to command a man to beleeve (by an implicit faith) as others beleeve; or to impose our opinions and assertions upon those that hear them, and not to give them liberty to try them. This is to be at once (as the Apostle James expresseth it, (Chap. 3.1.) many Masters, or many Masters where we should not be one.
But some will say, when the Word of God is preached, is that to be tried by men? have we a liberty to take that into consideration or to take and refuse it as we are persuaded in our own judgments?
But some will say, when the Word of God is preached, is that to be tryed by men? have we a liberty to take that into consideration or to take and refuse it as we are perswaded in our own judgments?