~------------------------------------------------~---------- :;;:h·5· Sermon inthe~ount. I _1.!_ -r- oflus priu:uc gainc:and therefore oughcrarh.cr A mutt be kept, bccaufc therein he is bound vnto depart from his ccmporall right; then fuftcr God:This D.midnoteeh for a propenic ofhim his brother fo to di01onour God, and to hurt chat muft reft in God1 ho!J mottnrahte, roJ:.!t'pe his ownc foulc. But if a Magi!hacc bee to put hif promt{e JP hereto he i.J· honnd ~! an o..tth1 - fuch a man eo his oath,as·is verily thought will rhuugh it turne 19 hh· owne hindc;·l'tr..ce, Pfal. pcriure himfclfe, he: may la~,.vfully do,it, but yet 15 ·4· he is firft to aducrcifc chc panic of the vvaight Founhly j here we 1.n:1y fee, th:tt the f dof t':1.~du~ ofan oath,and ofrhc tCarcfulllinnc ofpcriury; ~ri1~c and ;; pradifc of th~ Church of R omt: ' ;~~~~~.~~~~!. and rhen, ifchc order ofLaw and iufticc forets Wicked and d:unnablc: 1hey tr:ach,th:u the g Pi us 1· quire, he may minifier an_oath vnco him, lc:tBifl1op dfRomc, by the power of the Kc.ycs, i~U~!~~~lit. uing thc·cuent to Go:d:for the cxecution·ofiu. may free a man in cOnfciencc from the bond fiice mu(l not fray on mans mi(dcmcanour, nor ofa lawfull oath:Indccde,if'rhe bond were on.. waitc,til they make confcicncc offinncffor ifit Iy becwcenc man and man, it \'itrc fomcthing~ t!t· 'did,no c6monwealth could fl:and,no \.Var could bur bceing bc:H·Yccnc God and man, hcc ~h:tt be made: Moft!and the Lcuitcs exctutcd ven. will difpenfe therewith' mun be aboue' or at EJ(Od.):.l7o .•. Thcfluite bond ofan oath. Aconflrli· ncdoath of things lawful bindcs, gca.nce vpon the iJolacrous Icws,\\ithout w:ti-. B Icall equall to God himfclfc. The Pharifics do... ring for their repentance. . ~ Chine was farrc better, who taught thGt h1cn~ But jhalt ptrformc tQ;ne oathu vnt4 'the oathes mufi be performed vnto God , \Vithout Lord. }The(e V\'Ords are not fee d6wnc in any of difpcnhng therewith. And therefore our EngMofu bookcs , bur are a colleCtion from the liDl Priefrs who before hane f\o,·ornc to the Suformer lawe ofM o[es, gathered by the'IcwiD1 prcmacic of this flare, and now arc. reconciled Tcachcrs;"Nhich colleCH6 though it be not exto the Pope, arc fbrly pcriured pcrfons , and prdly Cet downe, yet is it the verie fenfe ofthe fo to be held. . · Law : for if a man cannot with~ut pcriuric But hovvfocucr the Pharifics make this one. brcake a la.v,·full bi11ding oath, then that taw good colleCtion, yet they errc groffdy,in their. which forbiddcrh pe'riuric,bindeth man to perft.itt;hcr meaning and expounding of this law: forme all chat he hath lawfully fwornc vnto for whC as God tOrbiddeth a man to forfwcarc God. himfclfe > hence they gather; firft, th~t it was Here then in this colleCl:ion of the Iewi!h. lawful! to fweare ordinarily in common calkc, Teachers, is fer downe an excellent po~nt, toueuen by the name of God, fo that they [~,wuc ching the ftraitnej{c of the bondofan oath. In etruely, and did not forfwearc t:hemfdues : that uery lawful! oath, there is a double bood;Firll, C this was their meaning, will appeare in Chrills it bindes one man toanother, for the pcrfor.. anfwer. Secondly, hence they gathered, thit ming of the thinghe fweareth to doe.Secondthe lawe fpakc nothing ofindirect oathes :for ly, it binds a man vnto God , for he that fweathey made two kinds of oathos : dire[/; by the rcth, invocares God as a witneffe,and a Judge name of God, and 'indirefl by' rhc creatures: of the truth ofhisaffertion; & he llands bound And as they held that a man might fweare divncoGod,tillthethingfworncvnto, bepcrr~CHy by the name ofGo,d without finnc.iR formcd,ifit be lawfi1U and poffible: And herein common ralkc, fo they taught that: fwcadng the Phatifies arc good Teachers, and from this iudircCtly by the cteacures,as by hcaucp,by the their collcCl:ion, v·le learne fundrie points. temple> the head, Alcar,and fuch like, was no.. FirH, that ifa man take an oa~h, though he thing; neither the breaking thereof was any \V ere confhaincd thereto by fear.c, yet it muil pcriuric, as M tttth.lj .t6.And like vmo thdC bee kept, ifit be ofthings lawfulIand poffible; !ewes are Popiil1 teachers, who hold that·men Aqnin.i.::.q, becau!C in an oath a man !lands bound to the may not onclyfwcarc by the tial)lC of.God,but 89.art.6. Lord: as ifa man fweare vmo a Thiefc, for the by holy things, as by the Rhoode, the Ma!fc, fauing ofhislife, that he vvill bring him fomc Saints and Angels, ifthey be nor abufcd. money,or other bootic,ofhis owne goods;this D vcrf.34· Bm I foJ vmo you, [werlre not at he is to performe, bccaufe the loffc is priuate; a//, neither6J hemun, forir i.r the throne ofGod, but ifhce were fworne further, not to deteCt &c. Here Chrifi c6futcth the falfe interprcta... the Thcifc, that were a bond ofiniquitie, tenlion ofthe IcwiG1 Teachers. And his anfwcr is cling to the hurt of the common wealth : and propounded, fidl generally;[weare not rt}a/1: thcrforc fuch an oath a man ought not to cake; then particularly in thewords following to the and ifhe doe fo fweare, yet he mull not kecpe 38. verfe. Thewordsofhis general! anfwer arc it, but repent ofhis rafh oath. fome"vhat hard, and perucrrcd by many;cher ..... Ano-nh got Secondly, ifa man be brought to fweare by fore that we may come to the true fcnfc there- / t~nby error: error, being oucrtakC by ;morhcr)ycr ifit were of, nvo points arc to be confidercd.Firfi,what ofthin~s lawful!, within his power, it mufl: be it is to f\veare: then how farrc forth Chrifl forkept: fo did Iofuah to the Gibeonitcs, and the biddeth [wearing. For the firfl:, wee (hall beH oran ":uh: . c 1001 . 3 , 19 , breach thcre9fbycSmt! WtU grimoujly punijbed concciuc ofan oath by d1c parts thercot: In an in it arc two I as we fficwcd bef()rc. oath be t\\~0 things : .. cortfeJTum, and l mpreca... thing1Thirdly) if' a man fwcarc vnto a lawfull protion. Con~'effion is three-fold; though for out· An o3thin. ·r d c l , l h k 1' l d3m3ging. mtte,an it ral out,t 1at t e ·eeping ofhis oath ward forme the vvords of an oa.th be.few. I .A ~rocure him great temporalloflCs;yc[ the .oath man confcffcth, that that which he fv.:careth is C!onfdfion. _ _.:._______ _ _ _________ ___G 4 true • · I
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=