A37046:514
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
Beside, the needless use of them habituateth Folk to baffle and profane excellent things▪ and do injure them to profanity: hence these that use them most are ordinarily less tender in their other Carriage, and it cometh to direct swearing at length. If it be said good Faith, signifieth no more but in Truth, and without Dissimulation, (as it's understood sometimes in the Laws,) Bon• Fide, and Mal• Fide. Ans. Yet Faith is otherwise taken in our Common Acceptation, and Words would be so used, as they are commonly made use of by others. 2. If it be not Evil, yet it hath the appearance of Evil, which should be eschewed and abstained from, 1 Thess. 5. 17. 3. Whatever Good Faith signifieth, yet certainly in our common use, it's more than a simple Assertion; therefore, should a man tell me an untruth, and put Bonâ fide, or Good Faith to it, to confirm it; will any man think but he is more then an-ordinary Liar, against the Nineth Command? Yea, would he not be thought Infamous in breaking his Good Faith? Therefore it is more then Yea or Nay, and so not ordinarily to be used. Yea, we conceive that these Asseverations will have more weight on Natural Consciences, than simple Assertions; and therefore the Challenges of dealing Falsely in these, will bite and and wound the Conscience, much more sharply than falsifying simple Assertions, which speaketh out this; that they are nearer of kin unto, and more involved i• this Command, than at first appeareth▪
Beside, the needless use of them habituateth Folk to baffle and prophane excellent things▪ and do injure them to prophanity: hence these that use them most are ordinarily lesse tender in their other Carriage, and it cometh to direct swearing at length. If it be said good Faith, signifieth no more but in Truth, and without Dissimulation, (as it's understood sometimes in the Laws,) Bon• Fide, and Mal• Fide. Ans. Yet Faith is otherwise taken in our Common Acceptation, and Words would be so used, as they are commonly made use of by others. 2. If it be not Evil, yet it hath the appearance of Evil, which should be eschewed and abstained from,