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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
Argum 3. In civil Administrations, and according to the Rules of right Reason, a very high probability, commonly called Violenta Praesumptio, sufficeth to sentence and execution: especially when it is but in the withdrawing or suspending of a Privilege. Therefore it must be so here. Because 1. here is no reason to put a difference. 2. Because our distance from other mens hearts, doth in most cases make us uncapable of more. Impenitency and infidelity lie within: and we cannot know them but by their signs and fruits. And 3. It is their fault in ⟨p. 342⟩giving occasion of such presumption, and in being so like the ungodly, if we deny them the Privileges of the Godly; and not our fault. The Antecedent is clearly known. If a man be known to bear another malice, and be found standing by him with a bloody sword, the person being murdered, the Judge will justly condemn him for the murder; though yet it be not absolutely certain that he did it. If a man be found nudus in lecto cum nuda, he shall be judged a Fornicator or Adulterer, though it be uncertain. So in other cases.
Argum 3. In civil Administrations, and according to the Rules of right Reason, a very high probability, commonly called Violenta Praesumptio, sufficeth to sentence and execution: especially when it is but in the withdrawing or suspending of a Priviledge. Therefore it must be so here. Because 1. here is no reason to put a difference. 2. Because our distance from other mens hearts, doth in most cases make us uncapable of more. Impenitency and •nfidelity lie within: and we cannot know them but by their signs and fruits. And 3. It is their fault in ⟨p. 342⟩giving occasion of such presumption, and in being so like the ungodly, if we deny them the Priviledges of the Godly; and not our fault. The Antecedent is clearly known. If a man be known to bear another malice, and be found standing by him with a bloody sword, the person being murdered, the Judge will justly condemn him for the murder; though yet it be not absolutely certain that he did it. If a man be found nudus in lecto cum nuda, he shall be judged a Fornicator or Adulterer, though it be uncertain. So in other cases.