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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
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.
5. Men may follow civil business, as paying or exacting payment of debts, buying or selling, and may walk in such things as are requisite for humane fellowship and society, because, though Church Censures be to humble and shame men, by bearing in on them their sinfulness, yet it is not to undo them, and simply to take away a being from them.
5. Men may follow civil businesse, as paying or exacting payment of debts, buying or selling, and may walk in such things as are requisit for humane fellowship and society, because, though Church Censures be to humble and shame men, by bearing in on them their sinfulnesse, yet it is not to undo them, and simply to take away a being from them.
6. Yet all these things would be done with them in such a manner, As, 1. the persons may show their indignation ⟨p. 267⟩at their way, even when they express tenderness to their persons. 2. It would be done in a different manner from what useth to be with others, not under such a Sentence, that so they may bear out their respect to the Sentence, even when they show respect to them. Therefore, there would not be such frequency in meddling with such persons, nor would it be with familiarity or many words, and long discourses to other purposes, nor with laughing, and with such cheerfulness, intimacy or complacency, as is used with others. But, in a word, the business would be done, and other things abstained from. 3. When, what is necessary is past, except it be on necessity, folks would not eat or drink with them at the time of doing their business, or after the closing of the same; because that doth not necessarily belong to them as men, and by so doing, the due distance would not be kept; and this is the great practic, so to carry to them as the weight of the Sentence be not lessened, nor they prejudged of what otherwayes is necessary to their being, but that so every opportunity may be taken, whereby their edification may be advanced.
6. Yet all these things would be done with them in such a manner, As, 1. the persons may shew their indignation