.. [ 6'1. ] them as Rel>ellious, and endeavoured their Im: prifonment and utter Ruine for not Swearing ne– ver to endeavour any alteration of Government, lhould all this while be defigning the alterationof it, and firft to make all men abjure it, and after to bring them to it. The Diffenters fcruple not Swearing never to Endeavour the Altering of the State, Gqvernment, nor of the Church as in tl}e Hands of fuch Pafiors as Chriil: or his Apofiles inflituted ; nor any Reformatioq by Sedition or unlawful Means : But they duril: not abfolutely abjure all Lawful Endeavour, to take the Church Keys out of Lay-mens Hands, and to have m0re Biiliops than one to many fcore or hundred Churches, &c. And ifw~ mull: lye in Jails as Rogues for refufing this for fear of Perjury, and yet the Reverend or other Profecuters ihould fo far alter all the Government of Church and State as to bring 2ll the Land under a Forreign. Jurif– diction, Legiflarive, Judicial and Executive, and to make King, Parliament; Clergy and People the SubjeCts of the Pope, or which is more bafe, of aCourt or Colledg~ of Prelates who are al– moH all SubjeCts to Forreign Papifis, Mahome– tans and Heathens, of whom few dare difobey 'their Lords and Princes, this would be fuch a. .thing as Humane Language hath no words fignifi– cant enough to defcribe. §· 4· Obj. Sinful Oaths bind none, and muft be · brokgn. , · · Anf I. Sinful Oaths involveMen in the dreac.f... , ful guilt of Perjury. 2. Oaths finfully impofedand .taken, yet bind to Lawful Macter. I 3· If •
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