[3"] todo, without all craft, fraud,or ill deceit or dif ì : mulct-ion. (See the ref there.) Page ,32, 3 3, 34. Contrary to this fimplicity of an Oatli,are two forts offmutation ; one as to the foregoing part, which is either antecedent or con- comitant with the of of fwearing : of which, though the former be the worfer, yet neither of them is free from peYY jury. D4vtd feemeth to comprehend both in Pfal. 15. and 24. [ 'Ye that fweareth not deceitfully, that is, with a mead to de- ceive--And Ile that fweareth to his own hart, and changeth not] that is, who when he bath bound himfelf by an Oath, will rather, even to his own great lofs,perform that which he incommodiouíly favore, than for any temporal commodity violate his faith.---Thefe things the greater part of men now in being, feem to me not to think of, or not ferioufly ; who fear not to fwear without any ambage prolixly, and in the very words, whatfo- ever is propofed to them, by fuch as have power to do them.hurt Yea and think themièlves the only wife men, and difdainfully deride their fimpli- city and vain fear, who, left they hurt their con- fciences, forfòoth, do feek a knot in a rufh, and vex (or follicit) the forms prefcribed by fuch as can profcribe them : And they fecurely free themfelves from all crime and fear of Perjury, and think they have well cared for themfèlves and their confciences, if when they (wear, like theJe- fuits, they can but any how defend themfèlves,by tacite equivocations,or mental refervations,or fub. tle forced interpretations, and quite alien from the words : Or elfe after they have fworn,can find out fame artificial evafion, as a hole to get out by,as the ä0 wx.xwwV, by which fo to defraud the Oath, Y that
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