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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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The reasons why we cannot Swear, or Covenant, or profess in your Lax and stretched sense, nor call that sense honest, as you do, (especially on pretence of a Bishop's Exposition, contrary to what I have reason to be fully satisfied our Law-makers meant) are those which I gave you in the thirty Aggravations, Sect. 16. which it did not please you to contradict. These few I repeat:
The reasons why we cannot Swear, or Covenant, or profess in your Laxe and stretched sense, nor call that sense honest, as you do, (especially on pretence of a Bishop's Exposition, contrary to what I have reason to be fully satisfied our Law-makers meant) are those which I gave you in the thirty Aggravations, Sect. 16. which it did not please you to contradict. These few I repeat:
I. The words of the Third Command are dreadful, God will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain, or falsely.
I. The words of the Third Command are dreadful, God will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain, or falsly.
II. Such licentious stretching of Oaths and Professions overthrow that mutual trust which is necessary to Humane Converse.