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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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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.
3. We are to take the Laws, and imposed words of Rules, especially in Oaths, Covenants, and Professions, in that sense as those words are commonly used and understood in that time and place, by Men of that Profession: ⟨p. 131⟩Unless the said Rulers make known, that they use them in a different unusual sense.
4. We must not presume that they mean not as they speak, by an unusual sense, upon dark and uncertain Conjectures, especially dictated by our Interest, but only by Cogent Evidence. These are our Rules.