Gods eye on His Israel, or, A passage of Balaam, out of Numb. 23,…

Name: Gods eye on His Israel, or, A passage of Balaam, out of Numb. 23,…
Author: Thomas Gataker

Gods eye on His Israel, or, A passage of Balaam, out of Numb. 23, 21 containing matter very seasonable and suitable to the times : expounded and cleared from antinomian abuse, with application to the present estate of things with us / by Tho. Gataker ...

Thomas Gataker 1574–1654London: printed by E. G. for Folk Clifton, 1645London: printed by E. G. for Foulke Clifton, 1645

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To the reader: TO THE Religious, Judicious, and Ingenuous READER: For such should I desire all that re…To the reader: TO THE Religious, Iudicious, and Ingenuous READER: For such should I desire all that re…

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Which Position, albeit with much confidence they maintain, and with no less eagerness contend for, as hereafter shall be made to appear; yet when it is charged upon them, their disciples are wont to cry out and clamour, that they are belied, wrongfully traduced, and injuriously dealt with, as being charged with that, which they neither teach nor maintain. And indeed, to mere strangers, or even to some of their own followers, who being but novices yet in the school of these mysteries, may ⟨image 3⟩chance to boggle and startle somewhat at such assertions as these, they may peradventure refuse, (as your brokers for Popery are in the like case wont to do with some of their grosser points, as the ^aworship of Images, and the like) to be acknown of that which yet they hold, or at least seem to hold, (for whether they can work their own hearts really to believe what in some things they say, may not unjustly be doubted) and, where they may be bolder and freer, stick not ^bnakedly, without mask or veil, to propound, and peremptorily to avow and maintain as an undeniable truth of God, and a main principle of faith.

Which Position, albeit with much confidence they maintain, and with no lesse eagernesse contend for, as hereafter shall be made to appear; yet when it is charged upon them, their disciples are wont to cry out and clamour, that they are belied, wrongfully traduced, and injuriously dealt with, as being charged with that, which they neither teach nor maintain. And indeed, to meer strangers, or even to some of their own followers, who being but novices yet in the schoole of these mysteries, may ⟨image 3⟩chance to boggle and startle somewhat at such assertions as these, they may peradventure refuse, (as your brokers for Popery are in the like case wont to do with some of their grosser points, as the ^aworship of Images, and the like) to be acknown of that which yet they hold, or at least seem to hold, (for whether they can work their own hearts really to beleeve what in some things they say, may not unjustly be doubted) and, where they may be bolder and freer, stick not

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