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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.
so in a certain peculiar sort, and most properly, that which is so false as yet to bear a show of Truth. (See the rest.)
so in a certain peculiar sort, and most properly, that which is so false as yet to bear a shew of Truth. (See the rest.)
The second which pertaineth to the interpretation of an Oath, is this, The Obligation of an Oath is of strict right—That is of so just an interpretation ⟨p. 328⟩of right, that the words of the Law may not be drawn further than is meet for the sake or favour of any party; nor constrained to serve any mans fact or commodity. In a word, strict Right, is not here taken so as to exclude an interpretation tempered with equity, but to exclude an interpretation of Law (or right) corrupted by favour (or for any ones sake)—The extremes are A Rigid interpretation, and A Favourable—A Just interpretation is the mean between both, which searcheth after the true and genuine sense of the Law, without respect at all to persons, out of natural equity and justice, and from the words themselves, as they agree with equity and justice. And if this may be plainly made out in the words themselves, that it is in every case simply to be retained.—See the rest.
The second which pertaineth to the interpretation of an Oath, is this, The Obligation of an Oath is of strict right—That is of so just an interpretation ⟨p. 328⟩of right, that the words of the Law may not be drawn further than is meet for the sake or favour of any party; nor constrained to serve any mans fact or commodity. In a word, strict Right, is not here taken so as to exclude an interpretation tempered with equity, but to exclude an interpretation of Law (or right) corrupted by favour (or for any ones sake)—The extreams are A Rigid interpretation, and A Favourable—A Just interpretation is the mean between both, which searcheth after the true and genuine sense of the Law, without respect at all to persons, out of natural equity and justice, and from the words themselves, as they agree with equity and justice. And if this may be plainly made out in the words themselves, that it is in every case simply to be retained.—See the rest.