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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
Chapter 55: POINT XII. Whether all Trusted in Corporations may declare, That there is NO OBLIGATION…
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. But this was a League and Covenant between man and man, who are dead or changed, and not a Vow to God; as you pretend; on which you lay the stress of the Obligation.
M. I have nothing to do with it as a League of Men, to do any action towards each other; but only as a Vow to God, and Covenant of Duty to God: And tho' the name of a Vow be not in it, I think him not worth the disputing with that on deliberation denieth it to be a Vow to God. Whom think you else do men make these promises to, of Repentance and Reformation, and opposing Profaneness, &c. The words signify as solemn a Vowing, as can well be made by words.
M. I have nothing to do with it as a League of Men, to do any action towards each other; but only as a Vow to God, and Covenant of Duty to God: And tho' the name of a Vow be not in it, I think him not worth the disputing with that on deliberation denieth it to be a Vow to God. Whom think you else do men make these promises to, of Repentance and Reformation, and opposing Prophaneness, &c. The words signifie as solemn a Vowing, as can well be made by words.
L. You would make all the Corporations of England constituted by the grossest Perjury that men can be guilty of, even by disobliging or justifying themselves, and all others in three Kingdoms whom they never saw, in the violating of a Vow against Heresy, Schism, Popery, and Profaneness, and Impenitence: When as you know that our Clergy cry down Schism every day.
L. You would make all the Corporations of England constituted by the grossest Perjury that men can be guilty of, even by disobliging or justifying themselves, and all others in three Kingdoms whom they never saw, in the violating of a Vow against Heresy, Schism, Popery, and Prophaneness, and Impenitence: When as you know that our Clergy cry down Schism every day.