Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	circumstance_n	command_v	lawful_a	3,295	5	9.7889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63426	A true and perfect copy of the whole disputation at the Savoy that was managed by the episcopal divines, as opponents, to prove that there is nothing sinful in the liturgy. Published to make intelligible the fragment already published by the Lord Bishop od Worcester, under the hands of Dr. Pierson, and Dr. Guning; and so much of his Lordships book against Mr. Baxter, as concerneth that disputation.		1662 (1662)	Wing T2525A; ESTC R219369	2,957	11

A True and Perfect Copy of the Whole DISPUTATION AT THE SAVOY That was managed by the Episcopal Divines AS OPPONENTS To prove that there is nothing sinful in the LITURGY Published to make intelligible the Fragment already published by the Lord Bishop of Worcester under the hands of Dr. Pierson and Dr. Guning and so much of his Lordships Book against Mr. Baxter as concerneth that Disputation Printed in the year 1662. A True and perfect Copy of the Whole Disputation at the Savoy that was managed by the Episcopal Divines as Opponents to prove that there is nothing sinful in the Liturgy Oppon MY Assertion is Nothing contained in the Liturgy is sinful This general Assertion I am ready to make good in all particulars in which our Brethren shall think fit to charge the Liturgy with sinfulness And because our Brethren have as yet by way of Disputation charged no other part of it with the imputation of sinfulness but that which concerneth kneeling at the Communion therefore my first Assertion as to that particular is this The Command contained in the Liturgy concerning kneeling at the Communion is not sinful This Truth I am ready to prove by several Arguments First This only command The Minister shall deliver the Communion to the people in their hands kneeling is not sinful The Command contained in the Liturgy concerning kneeling at the Communion is this only command the Minister c. Ergo The Command contained in the Liturgy concerning kneeling at the Communion is not sinful Resp Neg. Major Op. Prob. Major That Command which commandeth only an Act in it self lawful is not sinful This only Command the Minister shall deliver the Communion to the people in their hands kneeling commandeth only an Act in it self lawful Ergo This only command the Minister shall deliver the Communion to the people in their hands kneeling is not sinful Resp Negatur Major Minor Op. Prob. Major That Command which commands an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful is not sinful That Command which commands onely an Act in it self lawful commands an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful Ergo That Command which commandeth only an Act in it self lawful is not sinful Resp 1. We deny the Major and for brevity give a double reason of our denial one is because that may be a sin per Accidens which is not so in it self and may be unlawfully commanded though that Accident be not in the Command Another is that it may be commanded under an unjust penalty 2. We deny the Minor for both the same reasons Op. Prob. Minor The delivery of the Communion to persons kneeling is an Act in it self lawful This only Command the Minister shall deliver the Communion to the people in their hands kneeling commandeth only the deliver of the Communion to persons kneeling Ergo This only Command the Minister c. commandeth onely an Act in it self lawful Resp We distinguish of Delivering to persons kneeling it signifieth either exclusively to those and no other or not exclusively to other In the first sense we deny the Major in the second sense we deny the Minor Op. You deny both our Propositions for two Reasons both the same wee make good both our Propositions notwithstanding both your Reasons The Major first That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against is not sinful That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against Ergo That Command which commands an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful is not sinful Resp 1. The Proposition denied is not in the Conclusion The Major is denied because the first Act commanded may be per accidens unlawful and be commanded by an unjust penalty though no other Act or Circumstance commanded be such Op. The Minor next That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against commands an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful That Command which commands onely an Act in it self lawful commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against Ergo That Command which commands onely an Act in it self lawful commands an Act in it self lawful and no other Act or Circumstance unlawful Op. Wee prove our Major notwithstanding your Reason alledged That Command which hath in it all things requisite to the lawfulness of a Command and particularly cannot bee guilty of commanding an Act per Accidens unlawful nor of commanding an Act under an unjust penalty is not sinful notwithstanding your Reason alledged That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against hath in it all things requisite to the lawfulness of a command and particularly cannot bee guilty of commanding an Act per Accidens unlawful nor of commanding an Act under an unjust penalty Ergo That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and no other Act whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned nor any Circumstance whence directly or per Accidens any sin is consequent which the Commander ought to provide against is not sinful notwithstanding your Reason alledged Resp The Minor is denied upon the same Reasons which you do nothing to remove such a Command hath not in it all things requisite to the lawfulness of a Command because though no other Act be commanded whereby an unjust penalty is injoyned yet still the first Act may be commanded sub poena injustâ And though no other Act or Circumstance be commanded that is a sin per Accidens yet the first Act it self commanded may be a sin per Accidens Op. Either our Minor is true notwithstanding your Reason or else the first Act may bee a Command commanding an unjust punishment and be an Act lawful or the first Act it self being lawful in it self and all Circumstances may yet be a sin per Accidens against which the Commander ought to provide Posterius utrumque falsum both the latter Members are false Ergo prius verum therefore the first is true Resp 1. Neg. Major Because 1. The subject is changed you were to have spoken of the first Act commanded and you speak of the first Act commanding in the first Member you should have said else the first Act may be commanded sub poenâ injustâ and yet be in it self lawful which is true 2. Because in the second Member where you should have spoken onely of the commanded Circumstances of the Act you now speak of all its Circumstances whether commanded or not 3. Wee undertook not to give you all our Reasons the Minor may be false upon many other Reasons And were your Major reduced in the points excepted against wee should deny the Minor as to both Members And wee should add to our Reasons 1. That Command which commandeth an Act in it self lawful and only such may yet be sinful privatively by omission of some necessary part some Mode or Circumstance 2. It may sinfully restrain though it sinfully command not 3. It may be sinful in modis commanding that universally or indefinitely or particularly or singularly that should be otherwise though in the Circumstances properly so called of the Act nothing were commanded that is sinful 4. It may through culpable ignorance be applied to undue Subjects who are not Circumstances as if a people that have the Plague be commanded to keep Assemblies for Worship the Law-giver being culpably ignorant that they had the Plague Many more Reasons may be given Op. Wee make good our Major by shewing that the Subject is not changed thus If whensoever the first Act is commanded sub poenâ injustâ and no other Act is commanded whereby any unjust penalty is injoyned which were your words the first Act commanding must command an unjust punishment which were ours then wee have not changed the Subject But the Antecedent is true therefore the consequent FINIS