A32039:18
Master Edmund Calamies leading case
London printed : s.n., MDCLXIII 1663
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. EDMUND CALAMIES LEADING CASE.Mr. EDMVND CALAMIES LEADING CASE.
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.
L. B. L. If it were not our business rather to manifest our obedience to the Act of Uniformity in performing duty, then to dispute your disobedience in neglecting yours, we could easily show you how many ways you have wrested this Scripture, as the unlearned and unstable wrest them, to their own damnation: and how wide your case is from theirs.
L. B. L. If it were not our businesse rather to manifest our obedience to the Act of Uniformity in performing duty, then to dispute your disobedience in neglecting yours, we could easily show you how many waies you have wrested this Scripture, as the unlearned and unstable wrest them, to their own damnation: and how wide your case is from theirs.
For 1. They were silenced by no L•w; you are silenced by a Law: they could say with St. Paul, Acts 25. 8. for themselves, and answer, That neither against the Law of the Jews, ⟨p. 8⟩nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar, have we offended at all. You must confess, That against the Law of the Nation, against the Church, and against Caesar, in many things have you offended all.
For 1. They were silenced by no L•w; you are silenced by a Law: they could say with St. Paul, Acts 25. 8. for them•elves, and answer, That neither against the Law of the Jewes, ⟨p. 8⟩nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar, have we offended at all. You must confesse, That against the Law of the Nation, against the Church, and against Caesar, in many things have you offended all.