In secundis meditare, quo pacto feras adversa: or out of mature judgment to avoid the effect, or disannul the cause, as they do that are troubled with toothache, pull them quite out.
For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it?
It is certain that if the superior have once ratified it by silence or consent, he cannot afterwards disannul it.
It is agreed, that if he awhile dissent and disannul it, and afterwards both inferior and superior consent again, that it remaineth ratified.
If the work that these men do is that which God will promote and set up for ever, then you cannot disannul it; if not, God has appointed the time of its fall.
Ye shall not think, that I am come to disannul the law, other the prophets: no I am not come to disannul them, but to fulfil them.
