í2,a5) I. That even the Parents make not the Vow null at its firft making, but only relax it after, and flop the Confirmation of it, verf. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, t i, 12. 2. That this Power is about vows to God,as goodor hurtful to the inferiours ; and that force Vows are fo certainly necelThry to the inferiours good, that the Father or Husband (whole Power is only for their good, and not their hurt ) cannot difpenfe with it As Dr. Sanderfon, faith Pralett. 4, §. , p. io., ION. it belongeth only to thit matter in which one is under another Government, which bath ß 6. a double limitati- on, One in the perfon of the Swearer, viz. There is (carte any one that hath the ufe of reafon, that isfo fully under anothers Power, but that in force things he is fill Juris And there every man may do as plea/es himfelf, without confultit7 his Superiour, fo as that by his own Alf,without his Superiours Licence, he may bind himfelf. 2. As to the confent of a Superior a tacit confent antecedent ok° confequent fuffices Qjafi diceret, fa dáffenfum fùum vel atno die diffimulet votum in perpetuu1n f 4bilivit. And it is certain that to oppofe Prophanenefs,Schifm,and Popery, and to Repent ofSin, are things fo necefläry, and fo much for eve- ry perfons good, that no Parent or Husband can either forbid or nullify filch a Vow No man can hinder any from Vowing in Baptifm tobe a Chriftian, and to forbear Murder, Adultery, Theft, Idolatry, &c. nor can difoblige them after. It is certain that ifa fuperiour difíent, and after content, or he die, and the next fuperior (e. g. a. Husband) do confent, when a Woman makes the farne Vow, it remmaineth obliga- tory And it is certain that ifa Parent or Husband make the fame Vow himfelf, he cannot difoblige himfelf. And if once he confent, he can never after nullify it. And as toour cafe de FaEto it is agreed, I. That Parliament- Men took and impofed this Oath, when they were neither con- /trained, nor acknowledged the Kings Power todiffolve it. 2. That thoufands in the Nation knew not of the Kings pub-. lifhed Profeffion againft it. 3. That thoufands, yea the far greateft number in England, took it after thedeath of the King. 4. That they thought the prefent King took it himfelf, and ownedit by a Declarantion9 In which, tho' for mypart.I doubt not
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