Burroughes - Houston-Packer Collection BS1265.6.C43 B8 1649

Mofes Selfe-deniall. just dealings hee faw againft the Chri_ ftians, hee demanded that hee might be heard in defence of the Brethren,but all that fate at the Tribunal! being a- gainft it,becaufe hec was a Nobleman, thePrendent asking him if he were a Chriftian, he plainly and publikely confeft it, and fu was taken in amongft the Martyrs being afterwards called, The Advocate ofChriftians : Where haveweeNoble men nowoffuchfree and difingaged fpirits,to venture them- felves in any publike caufe for God, and their people?Who fhould bee free to fpeake, if not you t Gallafius upon Exod. 22. 28 fayesof,Bugußus, that he was wont to fay, that in a free Citie Tongues ought to be free : Where Ihould tonguesor hearts be free, ifnot in your honorable AfIemblies? If you would chewyour Noble mindes,fhew the li- bertyofyour fpirits, fayes Saint Chry- r fterne, Liberty, I fay, the fame that that bleiTed S. Ieho had, from whom Herodheard againe, and againe, Irisnot Lrvfsllforyou to take your brother Philips wife: That liberty all() that before him hehad, that laid to Ahab, It is mot I, but F 3 you In liberó civitate li- bera effe lingua's a- portere. chry/'oft. in OIlat. 18. Hom. S9 Libertatern nzibi anirui oftetrde, li- bertatern di- Co eant quanl ilk vir bcá- ttcs habebat, d quo itçruzn atque iteä

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