Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BX5151 .B3 1659

(+39) g. i8. If God have left us at Liberty bynot commandingor forbidding, then man fhould not take that Liberty from us without great caufe , and without fome Accidental good that is like to come by depriving us of that liberty , and the Good muff: be greater then the Accidental evils. Why thould any man on earthdeprive the Church of Liberty in that thing where God thought not meet to deprive himof it, unlefs he can prove that time, or place , or force fpecial accident bath altered the cafe ? In any cafe which flandeth with us ¡aft as it did, in Scripture times, we mutt no more be deprived of our fi eedom by man, then we are by God : Had it been belt for us, God would have done it, h t' ° 11E 11'';s`i'3" CHAP. VII. Prop. 7. Some things may be lawfully and profitably commandedat one Time and Place, and to one fort orpeople, that may not at Or toanother ; no nor obeyed, if commanded. f; i. ;,4 HE cafe is fo plain in point of Ccrrmand- r'' -..A bog, that it is pall all doubt. Many Accidents may make that dcftruaive at one Time and place,that would be profitable at ano- ther. 'Pools precepts and praâice in be coming all things to all mcn, do manifell this ."2,,

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