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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.
III. Bishop Sanderson in his Oxford Praelections de Juramento, saith, as followeth, (The Reader is desired to see his whole words, that he say not they are mangled, or any thing omitted which he would have had put in; and to consider how far the case of Oaths, and Covenants, Promises or Professions is the same.)
Page 30, 31. 1. Simplicity above all things beseemeth an Oath: That is, The nature and obligation of an Oath is such, that whoever shall bind himself by so sacred a bond to do any thing, he may be altogether held by the Religion of an Oath, and seriously from his heart intend, and as much as in him lieth, diligently endeavour faithfully to do all that which he hath promised ⟨p. 325⟩to do, without all craft, fraud, or ill deceit or dissimulation. (See the rest there)
PAge 30, 31. 1. Simplicity above all things beseeineth an Oath: That is, The nature and obligation of an Oath is such, that whoever shall bind himself by so sacred a bond to do any thing, he may be altogether held by the Religion of an Oath, and seriously from his heart intend, and as much as in him lyeth, diligently endeavour faithfully to do all that which he hath promised ⟨p. 325⟩to do, without all craft, fraud, or ill deceit or dissimulation. (See the rest there)
Page 32, 33, 34. Contrary to this simplicity of an Oath, are two sorts of simulation; one as to the foregoing part, which is either antecedent or concomitant with the act of swearing: of which, though the former be the worser, yet neither of them is free from perjury. David seemeth to comprehend both in