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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 5 › Verse 5
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.
A man that differs in judgment from his brethren in divers things; he differeth and he pretendeth this, he cannot see the ⟨p. 395⟩truth of God which he would fain see; he cannot do as his brother for his conscience bindeth him otherwise.1 But you will say, every man pleads conscience, how shall we know whether it be the stoutness of his heart or the tenderness of his conscience? Thus, If this man behaveth himself humbly, and the rather humbly in all other things because he cannot see what his brother doth in such and such particulars, and so is in danger to be an offence to his brother, and therefore his soul is humbled: This is a good witness that it is mere conscience and not stoutness that makes him differ. But now if his behaviour be high and proud when he differeth from his brother, he doth not take it to be an affliction to him that he cannot see what his brother* doth, but censureth him and thinks that it is either through his weakness or through his wilfulness, that he will not see, and so carries himself high and proudly before his brother, this witnesseth to his face that it is stubbornness and singularity. Thus his pride testifies to his face the inward wickedness of his heart.
A man that differs in judgment from his brethren in divers things; he differeth and he pretendeth this, he cannot see the ⟨p. 395⟩truth of God which he would fain see; he cannot do as his brother for his conscience bindeth him otherwise.1 But you will say, every man pleads conscience, how shall we know whether it be the stoutness of his heart or the tenderness of his conscience? Thus, If this man behaveth himself humbly, and the rather humbly in all other things because he cannot see what his brother doth in such and such particulars, and so is in danger to be an offence to his brother, and therefore his soul is humbled: This is a good witness that it is meer conscience and not stoutness that makes him differ. But now if his behavior be high and proud when he differeth from his brother, he doth not take it to be an affliction to him that he cannot see what his brother