A93085:260
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve…
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shepherd, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michel pastor of the said church in New England.Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shephard, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michell pastor of the said church in New England.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
6. A mere Penal law when 'tis broke; the forfeiture is sufficient for the satisfaction of the offence, or trespass; but not in a mixed law.
6. A meere Penal law when 'tis broke; the forfeiture is sufficient for the satisfaction of the offence, or trespasse; but not in a mixt law.
First, A Penal law is about things of small moment.
First, A Penall law is about things of small moment.
Secondly, 'Tis not made by way of command, but with an aut, a disjunctive copula: and is indeed rather a proviso then a law.
Thirdly, It is in the mind of the law, make satisfactory if the penalty be payed, ⟨p. 131⟩