A77979:1083
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 11
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.
'Tis true, the Magistrate is to be Judg, Answ. whether the thing be indifferent or no, and accordingly are we to yield obedience if it do not apparently appear to the contrary.
'Tis true, the Magistrate is to be Judg, Answ. whether the thing be indifferent or no, and accordingly are we to yeild obedience if it do not apparantly appear to the contrary.
But may not a man judg of his own actions? 'Tis true, he may; but with a twofold peril, that if it be right and sincere to put it to the venture, and if it prove to be light and false then to lie liable to the Magistrates censure; now if the Magistrate should command any thing which you in conscience think is not right according to the rule, you must disobey them, observing but these cautions.
1. With much suspicion and self-jealousy, thinking that §1they may understand better than we.
1. With much suspicion and self-jealousie, thinking that §1they may understand better than we.