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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 27
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6. There were such Reasons brought against your sense as these in the House. 1. No resisting Arms are lawful. 2. If Subjects be made Judges whether the King's Commissions be lawful or not, it it is no restraint of Rebellion at all. For it's as easy to say, They are unlawful, as to say, We may resist them though lawful, and far more easy. Who will not pretend it?
6. There were such Reasons brought against your sense as these in the House. 1. No resisting Arms are lawful. 2. If Subjects be made Judges whether the King's Commissions be lawful or not, it it is no restraint of Rebellion at all. For it's as easie to say, They are unlawful, as to say, We may resist them though lawful, and far more easie. Who will not pretend it?
7. Non est limitandum aut distinguendum de lege sine lege: But in so great a business as this, do you think our Governors will not take it for a heinous thing, for such as you or I to put in the word [Lawful] into Subscriptions and Oaths, which so many great men did so long and deliberately study.
7. Non est limitandum aut distinguendum de lege sine lege: But in so great a business as this, do you think our Governours will not take it for a heinous thing, for such as you or I to put in the word [Lawful] into Subscriptions and Oaths, which so many great men did so long and deliberately study.
8. A Papist or Jesuit will take it in your words; for he will say, That no Commission against the Pope's Countermands, or his Authority, or Canons are lawful.