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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › 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.
Object. But mark, Might not the people excuse themselves and say, what should we do? On the one side authority enjoins us, on the other side our Ministers teach us to do thus and thus, what shall we do? they might think to excuse themselves.
Object. But mark, Might not the people excuse themselves and say, what should we do? On the one side authoritie enjoyns us, on the other side our Ministers teach us to do thus and thus, what shall we do? they might think to excuse themselves.
Answ. No, judgment is against you Oh house of Israel; notwithstanding the Priests and the house of the King have done thus and thus, yet you are not to be excused. A great many reasons may be given why the people may not be excused though they be commanded thus and thus.1 I remember Arias Montanus upon this Scripture, gives this reason why men are not to be excused though they be commanded by the King;2 for he lays down this for a rule, That no King can make any Law but by the people, they cannot saith he make Laws by themselves alone, the people must consent to them some way or other; therefore the people are involved in all the wicked Laws in a Kingdom: It is not enough therefore for you to say such and such Laws are made and we cannot help it; we are to know it is not merely the will of a King that is a Law to a Kingdom, but Laws enacted is, where people have their hands one way or other in them. ⟨p. 341⟩This answer he gives, and he quoteth an Heathen to show that people must have their hand in the Laws that are made, especially some people, for some Kingdoms are otherwise governed than others;3 therefore there is no reason for people to say, in the Scripture such Kingdoms did so and so: We know in one Country the Kings authority reacheth so far, and in another so far; in one Country Kingdoms are by Election, in another by Inheritance; in one Country the female inherits, in another none but the male, therefore the power of Kings and their limits is not what hath been heretofore in such and such a place, but what is the constitution of that Kingdom of which he is King, for many are limited in their power in one Country more than in another; Therefore the people are not to be excused because of their evil especially in these times.