Jeremiah 35:11

But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

Ver. 11. Come, and let us go to Jerusalem.] So then it was lawful for them to dispense with those their observances, in that inevitable necessity; like as also they might have drunk wine rather than have perished. But what can be reasonably pleaded for that man of sin, who taketh upon him to dispense with God's holy law, and de iniustitia facere iustitiam, ex nihilo aliquid, ex virtute vitium, a to make righteousness of unrighteousness, vice of virtue, something of nothing?

So we dwell at Jerusalem.] But better they had kept out, and held to their old course; for so they might have escaped some way.

a Bellarm., De Pontif. Rom, lib. iv.