equivocative

Updated: August 24, 2024

For whatsoever doth manifestly endanger men’s souls, being a thing not necessary in itself, at which they take occasion of superstitious abuse, should rather be removed altogether out of the way, than be set about with a weak and easily-penetrable hedge of some equivocative cautions, which the ruder sort do always, and the learned do too oft, either not understand or not remember.

George Gillespie - The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)