A26965:624
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.
3. The Law-givers will not otherwise expound their own words, after 17 years waiting for it under Compulsive Executions: Certainly if they would have us understand their words contrary to common use, they would rather tell us so after seventeen years time, than ruin us, and forbear so easy a means to heal the Churches.
3. The Law-givers will not otherwise expound their own words, after 17 years waiting for it under Compulsive Executions: Certainly if they would have us understand their words contrary to common use, they would rather tell us so after seventeen years time, than ruine us, and forbear so easie a means to heal the Churches.
4. Some of us so highly value the excellent Praelections of Bishop Sanderson de juramento, and his judgment, against taking and expounding Oaths (and consequently professions and promises) in a stretched or a doubtful sense, and his Counsel to refuse them, when the sense is doubtful, if the Rulers or Imposers will not expound them ⟨p. 205⟩(though they should bid us take them in our own sense;) with much more which he hath excellently said to such purposes, that we thankfully acknowledge that he hath much helped for to fortify us against the guilt of perjury, and falsehood, and profaning the holy name of God, and deceiving our Governors by equivocations and false expositions, and scandalously tempting others to perjury, lying, or such other sins.
4. Some of us so highly value the excellent Praelections of Bishop Sanderson de juramento, and his judgment, against taking and expounding Oaths (and consequently professions and promises) in a stretched or a doubtful sense, and his Counsel to refuse them, when the sense is doubtful, if the Rulers or Imposers will not expound them ⟨p. 205⟩(though they should bid us take them in our own sense;) with much more which he hath excellently said to such purposes, that we thankfully acknowledge that he hath much helpt for to fortifie us against the guilt of perjury, and falshood, and prophaning the holy name of God, and deceiving our Governours by equivocations and false expositions, and scandalously tempting others to perjury, lying, or such other sins.