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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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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.
2. But if they discover their Sense in words so unmeet, as that in the Vulgar Sense they seem false or wicked, we must number such with unlawful words, unless we can by the public notifying the Exposition avoid the Scandal.
2. But if they discover their Sense in words so unmeet, as that in the Vulgar Sense they seem false or wicked, we must number such with unlawful words, unless we can by the publick notifying the Exposition avoid the Scandal.