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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › Visitation of the Sick.
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So that all the wicked men in the world cannot choose but understand us to speak conditionally? Surely this is none of your meaning; if it were, it were far from truth: Or do you mean not, de necessitate vel certitudine eventus, but de debito ex obligatio•e? no doubt but it is necessary as a duty, and also ad finem, as a ⟨p. 125⟩means: And therefore it is, that we desire it may be expressed. And doubtless you think not that all men do their duties, and understand all that they ought to understand, no not in this particular. If you mean that all sick men may be rationally supposed to understand it, this can never be believed by us that are •acquainted personally (and have been) with so many, of whom it is not true. How many think the Ministers absolution, and the Sacrament, will serve turn, with their unsound hypocritical repentance? How easily is that understood absolutely, or as bad, while they take you to take it for granted▪ that they have the condition which is absolutely expressed.
So that all the wicked men in the world cannot chuse but understand us to speak conditionally? Surely this is none of your meaning; if it were, it were far from truth: Or do you mean not, de necessitate vel certitudine eventus, but de debito ex obligatio•e? no doubt but it is necessary as a duty, and also ad finem, as a ⟨p. 125⟩means: And therefore it is, that we desire it may be expressed. And doubtless you think not that all men do their duties, and understand all that they ought to understand, no not in this particular. If you mean that all sick men may be rationally supposed to understand it, this can never be believed by us that are •acquainted personally (and have been) with so many, of whom it is not true. How many think the Ministers absolution, and the Sacrament, will serve turn, with their unsound hypocritical repentance? How easily is that understood absolutely, or as bad, while they take you to take it for granted▪ that they have the condition which is absolutely expressed.