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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.
P. 195. Of the latitude and extent of an Oath, How far the sense is to be measured by the scope *As when the Cause of the Oath was particular, but the words are general, e. g. The Popes Usurpation was the Cause of the Oath of the Kings Supremacy;—But the words of the Oath so assert the Kings Supremacy, as exclude all others as well as the Pope, from exercising supreme Power in this Kingdom: Answ. Such an Oath obligeth as to the words themselves in their utmost latitude: The Reason is, because the intention of the Law, though made on a particular occasion, is general, to hinder all incommodities of the same kind for the future.—As Lawyers fetch not the sense of Laws from the Proem, but from the body of the Statute, so we must judge of the just interpretation of an Oath, not by the promised recognition, or other preface, but by the body of the Oath it self.
P. 195. Of the latitude and extent of an Oath, How far the senso is to be measured by the scope *As when the Cause of the Oath was particular, but the words are general, e. g. The Popes Usurpation was the Cause of the Oath of the Kings Supremacy;—But the words of the Oath so assert the Kings Supremacy, as exclude all others as well as the Pope, from exercising supreme Power in this Kingdom: Answ. Such an Oath obligeth as to the words themselves in their utmost latitude: The Reason is, because the intention of the Law, though made on a particular occasion, is general, to hinder all incommodities of the same kind for the future.—As Lawyers fetch not the sense of Laws from the Proem, but from the body of the Statute, so we must judge of the just interpretation of an Oath, not by the promised recognition, or other preface, but by the body of the Oath it self.
- *As of Assent and Consent to the Use of the Liturgy, &c.
P. 208. He is always perjured that intendeth not what he promised: but he is not always perjured that performeth not what he promised. (The bond being dissolved.)