[3311 ligtsido jures] (that is, [Ofwhich I require thee to (wear plainly.] P. 5ç, 56. The queflion, Whether this or that Oath be lawfazlI much ditfereth from this,[Whether this or that Oath bind?] For though it be certain that we ought not to take the Oath, which we know that we ought not to keep ; yet it may come to pats, and often doth, that we ought to perform that which we ought not to have taken. yoJhuas Covenant with the Gibeonites, is a molt clear example of this. -- -- An Oath may be faid to be unlawful two wales ; either as to the matter fworn, or as to the AI of Jivearing. An Oath un- lawful as to the matter fworn, bu ideth not at all. An Oath unlawful in refpe t to the At offwear- ing, bindeth, unlefs orherwaies hindered. P.74, 75, A thing lawful in it fellmay be ur- lawful by accident; - - -as by_ the errour of the fwearer, or the ill eea of the thing fworn. The third Cafe is, When one promifeth by an Oath to do fomewhat perhaps lawful. in it (r 7, which yet he thinkth uralawfal , or at haft- feareth left it be not lawful: As ifany one before thtí tines, admitted to an Ecclefiaflical Ben fice, had prom fld to ob-- fcrve in Publick Worfhip all the Rites commanded by the Ecclefiaftical Laws, as the Surplice, the fgn of the Crofs at the facred Font, kneeling in recei- ving the Sacrament, and fuch like which stet by fome light prejudice he thought were f.perftitious `and Pohifh. Ihe queltion is, W, tat obligation there is in this cafe ? I fay, I. Such an Oath. cannot be- taken during fuch errour, without grievous fin. For he finneth gricvoufly that fïnreth againft his confcience, though erroneous. For when the Judgment of the Intellect is every ones neareft Rule
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