(33zß Rule of aEtion, the will, if it follownat,that judges ment failing from its Rule, muAt needs be carried into fin. It's a common faying, [''.'a that cloth a- sainfi. his confcience, buildeth to H .c ] Verily . he that fweareth what he thinketh unlawful, would fwear ifit were indeed unlawful; & that becomet[ unlawful to him that is lawful to another ; as the Apostle judgeth, Roams. 14. 14. ---z. 1Jay, fuck an Oath loth not bind--- Becaufe an Oath cannot take away a former obligation, nor induce another ob- ligation contrary to it. But that Oath which is taken againft the dictate of confcience, had a for- mer obligation arifing from that dictate. For the dictate ofconfcience, whether right or erroneous, alwaies obligeth, at lealt not to at againft it. But a following Oath cannot remove that obligation, but is it felf invalid, and lofeth its obliging force. 3. But if the fwearer after better taught, do fee and correct his errour, the Oath which bound him not before, beginnerh then to bind him. P. 77. Other Cafes there are of things by Ac-: cident unlawful, by reafon of ill effects of the thing it feif as it may be a hinderer ofa greater good, or a caule, at leaft an occafion of evil.--- The fourth Cafe is, when the thing fworn feerneth unlawful, as hindering the effeft of forne antece- dent good, as of a Vow or Promu e made before As if one that had before-hand bound himfelf to fbme work of Piety or Charity, after take an. Oath that hindereth the fulfilling of the former Vow. As if one that vowed to give halfhis gain weekly to the poor (hall after fwear to give it all to the war : --- This cafe hath no diffieul ry ; I plainly anfwer, --- filch an Oath is neither lawful nor obligatory,becaufe that the former obligation, whence:
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