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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 4 › Verse 1
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.
As for the controversy that is this day between the King and us, we can in that appeal to God, that there is no just cause the King should contend with us no hurt ever intended or done by us unto him. Only we desire to deliver ou• selves from Tyranny and slavery. Our Privileges and Liberties are deer to us, they are our Right as truly as his Honour is his. That which he inheriteth it was his forefathers, & that which his forefathers, his predecessors inherited, it was at first from the People, they set up such a family to rule and govern over them; and certainly they never set it up for any other end but only for the public good, not for their misery & ruin: We can appeal to God that we desired nothing else but to l ve peaceably and to serve God in our land, enjoying only w•at God ⟨p. 16⟩and nature and the Laws of our land had made our own. We know the relation between him and us, and the bond it is mutual; and if there be any thing done now that perhaps cannot be justified by any positive explicit Law of the land, let men know that yet it may be justified by the very light of Nature and by the Law of Arms. It cannot be imagined but if those that ought to be the protectors of the Law should come against Law so hardly upon us, that we must have recourse then to the Law and light of nature, it is impossible this should be otherwise, and this God himself approves.
As for the controversie that is this day between the King and us, we can in that appeal to God, that there is no just cause the King should contend with us no hurt ever intended or done by us unto him. Only we desire to deliver ou• selves from Tyranny and slavery. Our Priviledges and Libe•ties are deer to us, they are our Right as truly as his Honor is his. That which he inheriteth it was his for•fathers, & that which his forefathers, his predecessors inherited, it was at first from the People, they set up such a family to rule and govern over them; and certainly they never set it up for any other end but only for the publick good, not for their misery & ruin: We can appeal to God that we desired nothing else but to l ve peacably and to serve God in our land, enjoying only w•at God