This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1647 Excerpt: ...he that is hanged may not be damned.what ever his crime be, an execution on earth shal be as good as a Purgatory to excuse him from any other punishment. But then secoudiy, suppose a Rebcll escape the hand of justice here below, by flight, &c. nay that he prosper in his rebellion, and get the better of it, that the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1647 Excerpt: ...he that is hanged may not be damned.what ever his crime be, an execution on earth shal be as good as a Purgatory to excuse him from any other punishment. But then secoudiy, suppose a Rebcll escape the hand of justice here below, by flight, &c. nay that he prosper in his rebellion, and get the better of it, that the King be not able to punish him; nay, yet farther, that he proceed higher, Depose the King, and get into his place, What "cV" is he like to receive, it that signific onely the Kings wrath or temporall punishment? Sure this prolpcroulnesle of the crime must make it cease to be a crime, make it commence vertuc, as the Turkes Od their principles ar- wont to resolve it.saith BusbetjHiw.Ep.q.--Ex opinions qux Turcis insedit ut res cjnocunqne confilio injritutas, ft bene cadmt, ad Denm Jimborem referanty&c. Or else give it, (though it be a sinne never so great, and unrepented ot'J perfect: impunity both in this world, and in another; And certainly this is no jest, for he that observes the behaviours of many men, (the no manner of regrets or reluctancies in their course of "forcible relistance, (save only when they conceive it goes not on so prosperously as it was wont) and the great weekly industry that is used to perlwadeall men of the continued prosperity of the side, as being conceived farre more uses ull and instrumentall to their ends, then th; demonstration of the justice of it, mens consciences being resolved more by the Diurnall, then the Bible, by the Intelligencer then the Divine, unlesse he turne Intelligencer also, I would wee had not so many of those Pluralists.j Will have reason to resolve that this Divinity is the principle by which they move; which if it be not yet 61 ought to absurdities enough, then looke a li...
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