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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
XXXVI. We are the more unwilling our selves to make Vows and Oaths rashly, or to renounce any lawful part of such as were (though unlawfully) made: and that Ministers of Christ should really or seemingly be branded with the mark of PERJURY, or that any Cities or Corporations or Kingdoms in the world should be so branded, lest it should weaken and loosen the public bonds of Oaths with the Subjects, by which the lives of Princes are secured from Treasons and Conspiracies; And we think that when Oaths are despised and made as a sport, it is an act of treachery against Princes lives: Besides that the Guilty may expect Gods judgements; And if Perjury be revenged with Plagues, and flames and poverty, and a famine of the word, especially ⟨p. 80⟩restrained from the guiltiest places, it is no wonder; at least, till they as openly REPENT, as they have sinned.
XXXVI. We are the more unwilling our selves to make Vows and Oaths rashly, or to renounce any lawful part of such as were (though unlawfully) made: and that Ministers of Christ should really or seemingly be branded with the mark of PERJURY, or that any Cities or Corporations or Kingdoms in the world should be so branded, lest it should weaken and loosen the publick bonds of Oaths with the Subjects, by which the lives of Princes are secured from Treasons and Conspiracies; And we think that when Oaths are despised and made as a sport, it is an act of treachery against Princes lives: Besides that the Guilty may expect Gods judgements; And if Perjury be revenged with Plagues, and flames and poverty, and a famin of the word, especially ⟨p. 80⟩restrained from the guiltiest places, it is no wonder; at least, till they as openly REPENT, as they have sinned.
XXXVII. In General (because all particulars cannot be remembered) we renounce all Principles and Practices of disloyalty, sedition, faction, Schism, treasons, Conspiracies and rebellion, against Kings or any rightful Governors.