Resolvtions and decisions of divers practicall cases of conscience in continuall use amongst men very necessary for their information and direction in these evil times, in four decades / by Jos. Hall ...
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- Resolvtions and decisions of divers practicall cases of conscience in continuall use amongst men very necessary for their information and direction in these evil times, in four decades / by Jos. Hall ...
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- Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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- 1650.
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AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
I Have beene earnestly mo∣ved by some judicious friends, to goe on with this subject, and to make up a compleat body of Case-Divi∣nity, both practicall, specula∣tive, and mixt, whereof I confesse there is great defect
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in our language; But I re∣member the talke which Plutarch reports to have been betwixt * 1.1 Crassus, and King Deiotarus, two old 〈◊〉〈◊〉, but great undertakers. Crassus jeeres Deiotarus for laying the foundation of a new City in his decayed age; Deiotarus twits Crassus for going about, in the like age to subdue the warlike Parthians; both justly supposing our decrepit age a just disswasive from
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venturing upon great enter∣prises; Although herein I should not want a worthy precedent, that honour of Navarre, Martinus Az∣pilcueta, who at ninety years finished the fourth Edition of that his elaborate Manu∣all of Cases of Conscience. But as for me, I am suffici∣ently conscious of my owne inabilities for so long, and difficult a worke; Onely this, I shall willingly professe, that such scruples as I meet with in my way, I shall not
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allow my selfe to balk, and shall leave the answers upon the file. In the meane time, let me incite some of our ma∣ny eminent Divines, whose wits are fresh, and bodies vigorous, to goe through with so usefull a worke; Many yeares are passed since my ancient and learned Col∣league, Dr. Ralph Cud∣worth told me that he had with much labour finished that taske, and devoted it to the presse, which yet sleeps in some private hands. It were
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happy if his worthy Sonne, the just heyre of his Fathers great abilities, would make strict inquiry after it, and procure it to the publique light, for the common benefit of Gods Church both in the present, and succeeding ages.
The End.
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* 1.1
Plut in vita Crassi.