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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
But there is one that hath defended this as true, and tells us that by the [full moon] is not meant that which we call the full moon, or the same that's meant in the other parts of the Book, but by the full moon is meant [the mean Conjunction] and [the fourth of April that year 1664. Or [14 days after the ancient new moon found by the Golden number the 14th day of the Ecclesiastical Cyclic month] For an old Mass Book saith [Post veris aequinoctium Quaere plenilunium & Dominica proxima sacrum celebra Pascha: Non v•rius inveneris simile legas Codices.]
But there is one that hath defended this as true, and tells us that by the [full moon] is not meant that which we call the full moon, or the same that's meant in the other parts of the Book, but by the full moon is meant [the mean Conjunction] and [the fourth of April that year 1664. Or [14 daies after the ancient new moon found by the Golden number the 14th day of the Ecclesiastical Cylclic month] For an old Mass Book saith [Post veris aequinoctium Quaere plenilunium & Dominica proxima sacrum celebra Pascha: Non v•rius inveneris si mille legas Codices.]
Quest. 1. Are we sure this Mass Book meant not pleniluniam as we do properly?
Quest. 2. And are we sure they erred not that wrote this?