II. True Text. False Gloss.
A Husband-man Anabaptistically in∣clined in a pleasant humour, came to his Minister, and told him with much chearfulnesse, that this very Seeds-time
Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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- London :: Printed by R.D. for Iohn Williams ...,
- 1660.
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- Meditations.
- Devotional exercises.
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"Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40678.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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the words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 9.10. were fulfilled, that he that ploweth may plow in hope.
Being desired further to explaine himself; I meane (said he) we husband∣men now plow in hope, that a harvest we shall never pay Tithes, but be eased from that Antichristian yoke for the time to come. It seemeth, he had received such intelligence from some of his own par∣ty, who reported, what they desi∣red.
He might plow in hope to reach his nine parts, but in dispaire to have the tenth, especially since God hath blessed us with so wise a Parlia∣ment, consisting, not only of Men chosen, but of Persons truely the Choice of the Nation, who will be (as if not more) tender of the Churches right then their own interest. They have read▪ how Pharaoh King of Egypt, Gen. 47.22. would in no case alienate the Lands of the Priests. The very Gypsies, who generally have no good name, (con∣demned
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for crafty Cheaters and Co∣zeners) were conscientiously precise in this particular, and they would not take away, what was given to their God in his Ministers.