Master Edmund Calamies leading case

B.S. It is not what you think of the thing imposed can secure your conscience, but what they are▪ that which is good remains good, and that which is evil, evil: and that in the very same degree of good and evil as it was before, neither better nor worse, any mans particular judgement or opinion thereof notwithstanding.

Mr. Calamy. That's true indeed, yet what is good or indifferent in it self, if I am persuaded it is evil, it is evil unto me: to him that esteemeth any thing to be unlawful to him it is unlawful, Rom. 4.14.

Mr. Calamy. Thats true indeed, yet what is good or indifferent in it self, if I am perswaded it is evil, it is evil unto me: to him that esteemeth any thing to be unlawful to him it is unlawful, Rom. 4.14.

B.S. To him th•• thinketh a thing unlawful, and is at liberty, whether he doth it or no, to •im it is unlawful: but to him that thinketh a thing unlawful, bu• yet is enjoined by lawful authority to do, to him if he hath not a clear rule to the contrary, it is lawful. Whatsoever it co••• •ded us by those whom God hath felt over us […] in Chur•, Commonwealth, or Family, which is not evidently contrary to the Law and will of God, ought to be received ⟨p. 10⟩