Sales catalogue 616: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/153
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 616: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Banninck-Cock (Frans)—continued. accoort tevreden sullende zyn, hebbe (ick) hetselde onderteekent, doch later het principaelste verandert bevonden ; ick ben geresolveert van ghelycken door desen suyren appel te byten en haer toe te staan. Ende byaldien zy hierinne op een nieuwe veranderinge begeren soo schey ick soo wel uyt het een als uyt het ander, want ick veel liever hebbe met boeren te twisten als van boeren gheregeert te werden.’’ Etc. 841a BARINGC-GOULD (SABINE, born oT Famous Author and Hymn Writer. “ON THE RESURRECTION MORNING.” AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THIS FAMOUS HYMN. Comprising 8 verses of 4 lines each on 1 page, folio. £18 18s ‘‘On the Resurrection Morning Soul and Body meet again; No more sorrow, ,no more weeping, No more pain.’ Ktc., Ete. THE LAWFULNESS OF THE MARRIAGE OF AN UNCLE WITH HIS NIECE: 842 BAXTER (RICHARD, 1615-1691). Presbyterian Divine. Author of ** Saint’s Everlasting Rest,’? and other Works. AUN OGRAPH UUE PTE RY SIGNED . LO RE Vi wsib RINGS TALLENTS OF SHREWSBURY. 1 full page, folio. 14th January, 165%. With small wax seal. £15 15s Discussing the lawfulness of the marriage of an uncle with his niece. ‘‘. . . Had I been consulted in this case before the marriage was made, I should have given my advise & persuasion to forbeare it, upon this account yt at best it is a doubtful case, & no man should cast his owne conscience into unnecessary pplexities ; the world is wide enough for choice—I dare not now warrant them from ye guilt of violating God’s law—Lev. 18, 14—If they have more light y™selves than I have, to see ye lawfulness of it, I deny not but their own consciences may have proof, but els not. Yet dare I not conclude y™ guilty (of any more y2 a sinfull venturing upon a doubtfull case) because tho their degrees be of ye same distance with yt Lev. 18, 14, yet I am not fully certain yt God left any degree unnamed web he intended to forbid & whether he left man’s reason to gather by consequences yt all other degrees of equall distance are unlawful or not, for | am not sure if God might not have some reason to prohibite it to ye one sexe more y2 to ye other of ye same distance, or at least have some other reason of ye difference yt I know not of.’’ Etc., etc.
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