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  • For in all these actions a gesture is necessary; but there is no gesture particularly defined in the word to which we are adstricted in any of these exercises.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Spotswood tells us, (67) that public constitutions must be obeyed, and that private men may not disobey them, and thus is our practice adstricted in the use of things which are not at all necessary, and acknowledged _gratis_ by the urgers to be indifferent, adstricted (I say) to one part without liberty to the other, and that by the mere authority of a human constitution, whereas Christian liberty gives us freedom both for the omission and for the observation of a thing indifferent, except some other reason do adstrict and restrain it than a bare human constitution.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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