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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
Part 4 › Chapter 19: Some advertisements concerning the overtures proposed.
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.
CHAP. XIX. Some advertisements concerning the overtures proposed.
TO come now to some advertisements according as we did propose; we must shortly put them together, lest we be too prolix in every thing.
TO come now to some advertisements accordding as we did propose; we must shortly put them together, lest we be too prolix in every thing.
1. Then it would be adverted, That there is no peremptoriness urged in any of the former helps or remedies, but if other means may be found more effectual, all these are to cede. Only this is intended, that if no more probable and effectual means be found out, or applied, that it is better on such like grounds to unite than to continue a division.
1. Then it would be adverted, That there is no peremptorinesse urged in any of the former helps or remedies, but if other means may be found more effectuall, all these are to cede. Only this is intended, that if no more probable and effectuall means be found out, or applied, that it is better on such like grounds to unite than to continue a division.
2. It is to be adverted, That there may be, and ought to be such a condescending, in the concluding of, and fixing on the means, (especially for the time to come) as by the expressing of time, manner, and other particular circumstances of things, the fears of both may be someway guarded against, and each by showing respect to other, may endeavour the removing of their mutual jealousies; for seeing jealousies are mutual, it will be too much for one side to think that the other should wholly credit them, if there be no condescending by them.