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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? 'Communis error it is a general mistake, answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. 'Not so, replied the young Englishman; 'it is a general and well- grounded belief. 'It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, said Sampson. 'Abusus non tollit usum.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?" "Communis error it is a general mistake," answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. "Not so," replied the young Englishman; it is a general and well-grounded belief." "It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners," said Sampson. "Abusus non tollit usum.
Must God spoil his system, must there be less beauty, perfection and reason in the universe, because there are people who misuse reason? The common sayings are in place here: Abusus non tollit usum; there is scandalum datum et scandalum acceptum.
It is precisely what is noble and dignified that is most liable everywhere to misuse and fraud: abusus optimi pessimus. The downfall of the institutions of the old world, as well as of its arts and sciences, is, as I have said, to be attributed to the inroad of foreign barbarians.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? 'Communis error it is a general mistake, answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. 'Not so, replied the young Englishman; 'it is a general and well-grounded belief. 'It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, said Sampson. 'Abusus non tollit usum.
Si vero res sint adiaphorae sua natura et per legem Dei, eoque tales quae citra jacturam salutis omitti possunt, etiam si ad bonos usus initio fuerunt institutae; si tamen postea videamus illas in abusus pernitiosos esse conversas; pietas in Deum, et charitas erga proximum, postulant ut tollantur, &c.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? 'Communis error it is a general mistake, answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. 'Not so, replied the young Englishman; 'it is a general and well- grounded belief. 'It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, said Sampson. 'Abusus non tollit usum.
Lastly, Whereas the Doctor would bear his reader in hand, that in the judgment of wise reformators, even such things as have been brought in use by men only, without God’s institution, are not to be ever taken away, for the abuse which followeth upon them; let reformators speak for themselves: Nos quoque priscos ritus, quibus indifferenter uti licet, quia verbo Dei consentanei sunt, non rejicimus; modo ne superstitio et pravus abusus eos abolere cogat.
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