and forme ofSvv EAR 1 N a. So that, if at the pi:efent it feeme po(lible (othenvife not i:o be fworne eo) and after there doeemergere ililpij?:bile,thepattie is innocent. The fame is bbferved, couching our knowledge: for,fotheLawCaith, .A"manjhatl tejlijie that onely, )'9bic!Jheelmth feene; l1edrd o.rlviounie, and more !hall not beerequired of him. So, ehe laW of Nature, dnelyde quib114 fciam pote~ Levir.1."il roque. . ." ., .. . . , . " .• Now becaufe (ots IoJepfi welltelletll us, Genefiq9·9·)thatWeeonly Nortm/.i~ can doe that which law{tilly wee can, and (hriftian poffibilitie inipliethP•1n·J{t~ lawfulneffi; that is the fecond point of lnjuftitia, and the feccind Ca:VeatJ Ne illiciwm. Which is either prima facie, asSaul's oat/1, 1 Samuel iS; 10. and .AEls 23.14. Or it is likewife emergens,as·in Herod's oath, at [hdirllnd barme being undcrflood; but after the dernaund made, it was finne to kcepe it. So faith E<;,ra in the Law, Secundum Legemfiat, Ez.ra10.5. And Saint Paul in the Gofpell, AEls 23-3- They fitto judge fecundtlpit{quod I'! L'ge eft. :Put thefc: together th.1t wee bee required to twearenothing b~c i~·e; trlltb,ln )Jeritatt:':that we do itupon duead11ice and co~tftderation,ln Iudi€io =: that wee doe it but of thofe things wee know and can tell, and of thofc whereto La111 bindeth us :There is no more r.equired in aChriftian Oatb~ This to be remernbred, becaufc dive&which will beacco!JptedCprilti" ans,rcfufe in our dayes, theOath vvhich hathall her attendents. Ifthe Ma~ giflrate, either Ci1Jill (ExodM 22. 8. Nehemia. ~-1_1.) or Eccleftajlii:all (Num- Mat.2 6:$j•· bers 5.19.) r E1ther by ;icurfi, vvhere the pame IS' not KIIOW~te, as Pro'llerbs 29.24. Judges i7. 2. Le1Jiticw.; 5· I. •Or by tendering an Oath, and that againe double : 1 Either by way of adjnration. 1 Samue/3. 17. t!J\.eg.u. 16. 2 Or byvvay of[wearing them, as ExodU4 22.. it. Number.s 5·13· 1 11\.e-g. 8. )I· IIJ\.e%:1·iK.Iot Where the ·Farty is accufed by complaint, deteEliort (Gene(ls 3·ti'i~fomption (Genefts 4.) commewfame (a Corintf1ians 5+) He i~ ?ound to purgehimfe!fe, and fatisfie thepeople, in Adulterie,Tbeft,or any cnme. · But what if it tend eo his dammage,ortothc prejudice ofhisliberty ~ Our rule is; .fl.t!.ipoteft ad p•mam; poteft ad qu.t p.~na conjequitur. Therefore in a niatter of lifeor limme, yve admit ndt theOat!, : becaufe, rio man can lawfully fweare, to calt away or maime hirnfelfe. But a hian may direct.' ly fweare to his loffi, in his goods, as Genefts iH3· and to becomeaprifo1 ner,as (I IJ\eg. 1. 43.) Shemei did therefore fweare, and be £\vorne in thofe c~ufes andque~ions, whereto Law doth bihd to give anf!-'er~ tho~h Fme andCommztment,doeen[ue upon thc:m; . i ·~t •·:)(J . ' • 1'· :c. ..-"4'",.__' This qudiion remaineth,tf a mail have fworne Without thofe,whai he is to doe? when an04tbbinds,when it doth not ~ " ~
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