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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
L. I cannot deny it, proceed in your presuppositions.
M. IV. That no men have power to command us to damn our Souls, or to do any thing that tendeth to it.
L. None will deny you that; but perhaps some things may cease to be sin, and dangerous if commanded.
M. None can dispense with the Laws of God, but we grant that some things that are unlawful by some accident or circumstance may become a duty when commanded, when the good of Obedience, Order and Concord therein, weighs down against the accident: It may be a sin to go on Warfare before one is commanded, and a duty when he is commanded. It is a fault in a Servant to go before he is sent, and a duty after. V. We presuppose that deliberate Lying is a sin.
L. Is there any one doubts of that?