C, 204 from all their Contras and Vows,becaufe they finfully made them. Elfe they will purpofelydo all fnfully, that they may not be obliged. So that,, r. If the Adof Impofition. 2., The Aft of Swear- ing. 3. And part of the matter Sworn,be all unlawful yet a man is obliged to that part of the matter that is lawful. But part of the Vow in quefiion was good. L. What part r f st was good as to the matter ? M. I. The renouncingofPopery. 2.. And of Schifm. 3. And of Prophanenefs. 4. TheObligation todefend the King. 5. The..'' ProfesTion to Repent of fin, 6-c. L. But all this we are bound to otherwffe before. 'Then you confefs that it is good ; and then theVow in que= lion binds us to it.I hope youare not fo ignorant as, to think that a Vow binds not a man to do that which he is bound to before. I,.toid youbefore, tho' amanbe bound by his Vow in Baptifm to Chrift, his renewing it at every Sacrament layeth more and. more Obligationon him. If a man have taken theOathofAlle- giance, every time he taketh 'it, he is again bound to the fame thing. One may have a thoufand Obligations to one and the. fame Duty. L. But one thine is unanfverable.: No scan is bound by a Yom that hadnot afelfobleing power : But the Subjeas ofEngland and Scbtland, had no felf.oLligingpower to take that Covenant, becaufe the Kingwas againft it. The 30. ofLevit. proveth this.at large. 'M. Indeed if the Mt: of Vowing were not only fir-dui but a meer nullity, that Vow being no Vow, could not bind: But that Levit. 3o. doth no whit prove this, I have fully mani felled in my Chriftian Direltory in the chap. of Vows, to which 3 referr you part. 3. cap. 5,. Where the wholecafe ofVows is fo' largely opened, that I will here only fay this little. The text ofLevit. 3o. dothexprefly (peak only of, Women, that are in a Parents or Husbands houfe, and only of Vows made freely to God of doing or offering fomething to him Yea it feemeth limitted to them, of which many reafons may be given. 'And many reafons I have there mentioned rag. 33. why it loth not extend toPrinces and Magiftrates for releafing their Sub its from their Vows, tho' fotne pretend a parity ofreafon. Ent there things are certain. . Thât..
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