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Show ~ .. , . . ~ XXVIl. · In An Ottth is t"ttjuit'td 11 _ _delibqate minde. :_ "f , ·r;~t . lfs .. pow-confider, whepce · ari'reth · the' veitue of an oath, and how far it teathech~ Fir!r.z. what is f~.id of pro· rnifes and contra¢ts hath place here al· fo :that a riun~ having ufe uf reafon,atid delibc:rare is required. Wherefore , 1f iny one , not conceiving that he fwears,utter fwearing words:~- 4-s is related bf C ydippe, that may be faid ~ whtch Ott~ill ~fcribeth to her , taken out of Euripides , J havt not [wo-rn; beq_tf:t(fe my mind ~ent not wtth my tonge~e *.!Jut if one,willmg,tofwear, is not willing to oblige himfelf, he is ne· ver the lefs ubliged; becaufe obligation is infeparable from an oath , and a ne• ceffary effea thereof t. ~ Ovid epift. .!l.}t~t jurat mens tfl ; nil conjtJraviWJU& illt. Eurip. H1 ppol. Jurat a linguA e{t : mente jur.tvi 71ihil. · quia de re honefta tacenda , _ nutrieis _ ver~i inttllesttat Hippolitus, non de adulterio 8c incdbt. . E>vicl. ibidem : con{i!i~tm prudm/1; .ani.mi {enttnti'4 Jf4Yil, l.t nifi jNdicii 'flincN/4 nr;lla tene.t, mox : Sed ft nil deiimtll pr~tter fine pttbre 'fiDCitn1 • . Jl erb~t [uis fru(lra viribus or~a tents. 'Nm e&o jura-vi; legi jtmmtia fltrb.s: &e. . . 1 ~'~ ~~ 8, qu. 1. ~-"·1• (:~varr. • '~ ctuamvis. P· 1 • t. f· XXVIII. /11 XXVIII. In what fenfe the words of ~tn O~tth htnd. Bl:lt , if one deliberately pronounce I (-wearing words, yet witQout a mimie of fwearing, (orne fay, he is not bound , yet_fins in fwearing rathly. More truly, he 1s bound to make good hii words, whereto he hath called God. a wimefs. tTullius~ For, that ad:, which by it felf is obliga- !5<.,111~ t:r ~tory, proceeded ftom a deliberate rnin'de. ::'//"'idmtM ~·Confequent to this it is, that although me if,;:,:~. that of Tully be true , what thou haft e{l. ~o. & il~ {wor11 according to thy minde, not tD do u lud pemnet perjNry t; Yet hath it this exception un- qu~Gia~dHo- 1 r h h f k ' me1 um JUranc ~~s e t at wears now, or probably be- UlyaiC:aJypfo h_eve , ~he words are taken ocherwife by ait : •~•.,. ~ 1 h1m, Wlth whom he dealeth. For calling "'111 •1fl'lfi(Si ... God to witnefs his words , he ought to ':"a· n.· m.a k e t he wor ds true , as h e t h'm k s t he y epiRu: gu2.u:. :muds ( are ~nderHood *. And this is that which Hlol~ut~;q:i' the ~arne Cicero faith : What ~- fo fworn , e ~unicis caM the minde of the giver of the oath con- ~nsegrcJfus. I ceives it muft be done ~it mwft 6e k!pt In JO ca~rad r~d'- • crat , tn c .1.\,o- • . mam vcnerac: ~~~~ 11011 attendtl'lmt qu• 1/lum Stnatu m07J~U'IIt q11id ipft jurando co· &•t4JJ't~, {td 9•itl ab zlto quibll4 juravtrAt ex(p;ctarent. Vide & fequentta. Vtdc ~d bane rem pulcre dicra Condlio Trofleiano :rom. 3. Conc~l ed.itionis s~~mondian:E' & apud HiucmarUJil' m opufcul~ ~e dt vort•o Lot~attJ ~ Tethberg~ ad interrogatio .. ~m 6, ubt 1~ ~anc f~pcent1~m r.e~e de Deo dicicur; .§Lui norJ Nt }UY,IU, fed ut ·~ JUrafle putav•t &Ill JUT1t4,_audit.: Sic t~ litriq; reM. l;R profc:ffi l~e JUrata Heb_r~orum yer H1fpamam : Se ntm ta inttm. IIOil Jfrfi'fl'll )j,N# a IDbll tnf proflttntc aHdita atq; inltl/etla [ll'llt~ T~tcitSH |