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A decad of caveats to the people of England of general use in all times, but most seasonable in these, as having a tendency to the satisfying such as are not content with the present government as it is by law establish'd, an aptitude to the setling the minds of such as are but seekers and erraticks in religion an aim at the uniting of our Protestant-dissenters in church and state : whereby the worst of all conspiracies lately rais'd against both, may be the greatest blessing, which could have happen'd to either of them : to which is added an appendix in order to the conviction of those three enemies to the deity, the atheist, the infidel and the setter up of science to the prejudice of religion / by Thomas Pierce ...

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed for Richard Davis bookseller in Oxford
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A70803 ESTC ID: R18054 STC ID: P2196
Subject Headings: Christian life; Church and state -- England; Dissenters, Religious -- England;
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In-Text But first of all to the end that our very Abstinence may not be Evil, even then when it makes the most goodly shew; we must abstain from the evil of seeming onely to be abstemious; that is to say, from the evil, of being abstemious in Hypocrisie. For the World is too full of those Modern Pharisees, who often violate the Text by its Authority; and so insist upon the Letter, in opposition to the Scope, and the Tenor of it, that they rebell against the Precept by their obedience; and offer violence to the Law in its own defence. For (say They within themselves) it is not said by the Apostle, Abstain from all Evil, But First of all to the end that our very Abstinence may not be Evil, even then when it makes the most goodly show; we must abstain from the evil of seeming only to be abstemious; that is to say, from the evil, of being abstemious in Hypocrisy. For the World is too full of those Modern Pharisees, who often violate the Text by its authority; and so insist upon the letter, in opposition to the Scope, and the Tenor of it, that they rebel against the Precept by their Obedience; and offer violence to the Law in its own defence. For (say They within themselves) it is not said by the Apostle, Abstain from all Evil, p-acp ord pp-f d p-acp dt n1 cst po12 j n1 vmb xx vbi j-jn, av av c-crq pn31 vvz dt av-ds j n1; pns12 vmb vvi p-acp dt j-jn pp-f vvg av-j pc-acp vbi j; cst vbz pc-acp vvi, p-acp dt j-jn, pp-f vbg j p-acp n1. p-acp dt n1 vbz av j pp-f d j np2, r-crq av vvb dt n1 p-acp po31 n1; cc av vvi p-acp dt n1, p-acp n1 p-acp dt n1, cc dt n1 pp-f pn31, cst pns32 vvi p-acp dt n1 p-acp po32 n1; cc vvi n1 p-acp dt n1 p-acp po31 d n1. c-acp (vvb pns32 p-acp px32) pn31 vbz xx vvn p-acp dt n1, vvb p-acp d n-jn,




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