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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 32
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Your Repetitions of the same things, with saying and unsaying, and bare saying without proof are so many, that I will not wrong the Reader with Confuting any more of them, save only to give you some account why I am sorry: 1. That you retract your saying that Oaths are stricti juris, 2. And that while you pretend to own Bishop Sanderson's Rules de Juramento, you renounce this which is one of the chief of them. And I will tell you the reasons of my dissent from that, and most of your Book.
Your Repetitions of the same things, with saying and unsaying, and bare saying without proof are so many, that I will not wrong the Reader with Confuting any more of them, save only to give you some account why I am sorry: 1. That you retract your saying that Oaths are stricti juris, 2. And that while you pretend to own Bishop Sanderson's Rules de Iuramento, you renounce this which is one of the chief of them. And I will tell you the reasons of my dissent from that, and most of your Book.
IV. By stricti juris, is not meant the mere Literal Sense as different from the less Proper, which is more notified; but strict is contradistinguished from loose and stretched. I told you the Rule that we go by in this, and it pleased you not to Confute it. Thus much I repeat:
IV. By stricti juris, is not meant the meer Literal Sense as different from the less Proper, which is more notified; but strict is contradistinguished from loose and stretcht. I told you the Rule that we go by in this, and it pleased you not to Confute it. Thus much I repeat:
1. We must take Oaths, Covenants, and Professions imposed by Authority, in the sense of the Imposers as near as we can know it.