Baxter - BX5202 B291 1679

l t Et171 doms, Cities, Laws and Judgments, and feize at pleatùre on all mens eftaces or lives. And they dare not fwear or fubfcribe that which the ge- nerality of Learned men, Heathens, Papilts and Proteftants, Politicians, Lawyers, and Divines are commonly againft, it being too great pre- fuming on their own wits to fay or fwear, that almo(t all the world are in the wrong (evenmen in their own profeflion) and that yet ¡hey are wirer than all thefe. An Oath thereforebeing to be taken underßandingly, their nor underfiaYd -- inn this, caufeth their refufal ; and it pleafèthnot the Law givers to explain it to them. 1. But though this be a ver,7 important huh nefs, we are to unwilling to meddle with matters ofour Rulers Power, as being let's pertinent to our fun(tion, and the late debates in the Houle of Lof ds (as time body hath publifned them) have fàid fo much in this cafe, that we think it belt to fay no moreof it. SECT. X!V. VT. Sixth `Part ofConformity or 0be- dunce c onreautntly requiped of MMmJiers. 1. H E Sixth part of Obedience required of us confequently is, that till we can doall aforefaid, We malt d, fat ourformer flecks, though they defire us to contarne our care of them, and that' n e give ova our preaching the Gofpel offa/vation to any hut war families, or four more; and that Y0 . man not ordained by .D;ocefans admtnifter the Lords Supper, &e.] 2. The

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