A26864:270
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 27.
R. B. But do you take officium and conditio to be all one? I easily yield that we may do our duty in believing, though it were an instrument: But a condition is more then a duty: yea then a duty to be performed for the obtaining of a benefit▪ Cujacius saith, Conditio est Lex addita negotio qua do•ec praestetur eventum suspendit, Vel est modus vel causa quae suspendit id quod agitur, donec ex post-facto confirmetur. Or as Mynfinger, Cum quid in casum incertum (i. e. contingens) qui potest tendere ad esse vel non esse conferiur And they are divided into Potestativas, Casuals, Mixtas ▪ Ours is of the former sort, and I define it, viz. the condition of the Covenant to be, Actio voluntaria de fu••ro, a Deo Legislatore & Christo Testatore in neva Leg•, Feeder, Testamento requisita, ut ex ejus praesta•ione constituatur jus actuale ad beneficium: vel, ut obligationem & eventum suspendat don•• praestetur. For ex stipulatione conditionali neque obligatio •eque actio ulla est, an•equam conditio eveniat: Quia quod est in conditione, non est in obligatione. Ut My•sing▪ in Just••. Schol. pag▪ 5 ••)
R. B. BUt do you take officium and conditio to be all one? I easily yield that we may do our duty in beleeving, though it were an instrument: But a condition is more then a duty: yea then a duty to be performed for the obtaining of a benefit▪ Cujacius saith, Conditio est Lex addita negotio qua doec praestetur eventum suspendit, Vel est modus vel causa quae suspendit id quod agitur, donec ex post-facto confirmetur. Or as Mynfinger, Cum quid in casum incertum (i. e. contingens) qui potest tendere ad esse vel non esse conferiur And they are divided into Potestativas, Casuales, Mixtas Ours is of the former sort, and I define it, viz. the condition of the Covenant to be, Actio voluntaria de furo, a Deo Legislatore & Christo Testatore in neva Leg, Federe, Testamento requisita, ut ex ejus praestaione constituatur jus actuale ad beneficium: vel, ut obligationem & eventum suspendat don praestetur. For ex stipulatione conditionali neque obligatio eque actio ulla est, anequam conditio eveniat: Quia quod est in conditione, non est in obligatione. Ʋt Mysing in Iust. Schol. pag 5 )