[2!21 Whether that which is Lawful may not be done by the Law makers, and be endeavoured by flwerch in Parliament, or by petition by the people ; Efveciaily if the King Command it 3 Whether men be not bound by a Vow- to that which is Lawful. : much more to that Which is antecedently a duty? 3. The Conformifis are here difagreed among tbemfelves3 fi:me lay that the Vow bind eth not bec«ufe it was unlawfully impaled : But others better fay, that this proveth no more, but that the h pofers could not bind me to tale it by ,any eli.thoreïy of theirs; And t hat if I had taken it in f cr c t vithout irnpoftron, I had been bound by it FLi no private Vw.i Ihòuld binC.Some fy that it 'binds not became it wasfi f r°ly taken: B:.t others truly fay that if Oaths bind not wherever men t e tlacn< (,.fully, no wicked man fhould ever be b :urd hr Oaths or Vows, beenfè they tifualiy maker hem finfully by an ill end and intention, wrong motives, or ill princii;les or manner: Or c;r leaft a bad man tai ht choofè whether ever Ite wiH be obliged : But all good cafiiilts agree, that :f the matter be lawful the tal.eiwftl takirng Minders not the obligation. A man that is Bap razed-w-rth ill motives or intentions, is yet obli- ged by his Bap +r_ifmal- Vow.Sotnefày that ír bird riot becaUè the matrer tt f`elf is unlawful. Eut granted that it bindeth to no unlawful mat- li c : Others therefore truly fay that he that \'; ,wcth fix things whereof three are fitful, is ,..,r di1,blige-d by the conjur tiz;n of thefè from The other three that are Lawful : Els a Knave may keep him:e1f d'fòbli ed as to ?II Vows, by f,utrirg in wane unlawful thing. Some fay that IC r.,
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