A32039:32
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.
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B.S. What a strange thing is this! that when the blessed Apostle commanded you to obey for conscience sake, you should disobey, and that for conscience sake too: Your Governors charge you upon your Conscience to be obedient, and you pretend your conscience to be free from that subjection: It is a sad thing that you have brought your selves and other poor souls to such • strait between two sins, and you can by no means possible avoid both, as long as you persist in this way; for if you do the things commanded, you go against the persuasion of your own conscience, and that is a great sin; and if you do them not, you disobey lawful Authority, and that is a sin too.
B.S. What a strange thing is this! that when the blessed Apostle commanded you to obey for conscience sake, you should disobey, and that for conscience sake too: Your Governors charge you upon your Conscience to be obedient, and you pretend your conscience to be free from that subjection: It is a sad thing that you have brought your selves and other poor souls to such • strait between two sins, and you can by no means possible avoid both, as long as you persist in this way; for if you do the things commanded, you go against the perswasion of your own conscience, and that is a great sin; and if you do them not, you disobey lawful Authority, and that is a sin too.
Mr. Calamy. Truly neither fancy, faction, nor humour makes me not to comply, but merely for fear of offending God: And if after the best means used to satisfy my self; as prayer to God, discourse, study, I was not able to apprehend the lawfulness of what was required; if it be my unhappiness to be in an error, surely men will have no reason to be angry with me in this world, and I hope God vvill pardon me in the next.
Mr. Calamy. Truly neither fancy, faction, nor humor makes me not to comply, but meerly for fear of offending God: And if after the best means used to satisfie my self; as prayer to God, discourse, study, I was not able to apprehend the lawfulness of what was required; if it be my unhappiness to be in an error, surely men will have no reason to be angry vvith me in this vvorld, and I hope God vvill pardon me in the next.