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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
§ 362. I come now to the Non-Subscribers particular Scruples, which are such as these.
1. They say, That all Men confessing that an Oath or Vow is obligatory, they must see good proof that this particular Vow is not so before they can exempt it from the common force of Vows: But such proof they have never seen, from Mr. Fullwood, Mr. S•••man, Dr. Gauden, or any that hath attempted it, and on whom it is incumbent: but rather admire that Men of so great Judgment and Tenderness of Conscience should ever be satisfied with such halting Arguments; which they had long ago more fully confuted, if the Law had not forbidden them. They herein argue as the Bishops in another Case: Uncertainties must give place to Certainties, caeteris paribus: But they are certain in general that Vows are obligatory, if materially lawful: and they are uncertain that this Vow it materially unlawful, and so not obligatory: Ergo they dare not say that no Man is obliged by it.
§ 363. 2. They say, That all the World confesseth that a Vow obligeth […] necessariâ, to that which is antecedently a Duty: but they propound it to consideration, whether all these things following, which are in the Covenant are certainly no Duties antecedently.
§ 363. 2. They say, That all the World confesseth that a Vow obligeth 〈…〉 necessariâ, to that which is antecedently a Duty: but they propound it to consideration, whether all these things following, which are in the Covenant are certainly no Duties antecedently.