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This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's translation of Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has translated it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood not three lines together from one end of the book to the other. 5th. Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office.

"Here comes that Talbot van Alsted," said Blanche, bursting at last into a loud whisper. "What a goose he is, to be sure! Dear baby, it promised its mother it wouldn't drink wine for two months. Let's all drink with him. Talbot, my boy, just in time! Fill your glass. Stosst an!"

The learned Casuists teach us, that an erring conscience, though non obligat, yet ligat; though we be not obliged to do that which it prescribeth, yet are we bound not to do that which it condemneth. Quicquid fit repugnante et reclamante conscientia, peccatum est, etiamsi repugnantia ista gravem errorem includat, saith Alsted.

Hence Alsted: “Laws made by men of things indifferent, whether they be civil or ecclesiastical, do bind the conscience, in so far as they agree with God’s word, serve for the public good, maintain order, and finally, take not away liberty of conscience.” Hence the professors of Leyden say, that laws bind not primo et per se, sed secundario, et per accidens; that is, quatenus in illis lex aliqua Dei violator.

This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's translation of Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has translated it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood not three lines together from one end of the book to the other. 5th. Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office.