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Show .<Jf War at)~ Prace Tacit/# we read, Trembling andchanging the ,:vords of the Oath by variof:(:S 'arts,conE. pift. :u 4 • JcioUJ oft heir own wick.gdne[s. AuguRin : Lib. z. de fum. They are forfworn ., w~o, ~he r11ords heint, b~no. cap.31.1. falved, have decetved t hezr expeCtatio.?1.fo ntatur ',~ufa whm1- they have fworn. And Itidore: with 2q.u1-a.c'UJNiJift1Ji~. •f•C• :w ha t.Jf.o ever art o,J{ wor a.s one fw' ears, God ,. Donatus ad notwithftanding who u a witne[s of tht Hl?d in A_n- confcience , takp it {o M he doth to whom fi dnaJ ~,.dfl it u Jworn. And this is that which is heorreuem o pj*zure tjt a- meant by t h.e p hr a1re L t. ~U·t. do J.U rare *: Yttnaum mihi, :rherefore d1d Mete/bu. nghtly refufe co N01J o~pofu_i.ffJ, fwea1· to the Apuleian L-avv , albeit there ~t~•lJ~'d"pojJi11'. were fome that faid , the Law, by fault Liqu1do ,p~re, . h - . . r· .d d h & manijefte. m t e preternng o 1t, was vo1 ; an t at Nicetas in A- the oath to the Law was [o to be underlcx~ o fr~u_dem: ftood,if the Law were rightly preferd·and Andron1~1 • · made. For, albeit in other promii"es .is ea· Comnent cnl- r..1 d 11 d r . d; . pani: aportuit 11 y un ernoo 1ome tacit q>n mon, ,.o, quttjita which may exfolve thepromifer, yetis lo,utione verb~t, not that to be admitted in an oa.~h. Per· •dultcrare, fed tinent here is that noble pla"c of the A7 {!e~O:,~?~~~i. poftk to the _Hebrews: God -p7i!ling .moft qui ~alibide abundantly to fhew unto the hetrs of pro• .tdexiocontra mi[e the immutability of hu coun[ell,con· fenfum v:r~a finned it by an oath : 1hat hy two immu· capt~nr.e: !1a tttble thin~s in which tt WtU impojfibiefor verbu ,au zn./i- ~ . . ft debat ,utmufca qod to* (Ct~ve, we mtght ha'Ve a rong 'llibici. Gravi· Ctr in bane regubni peccavit t~la Arcadians , quz eff~cit ut ~h~lcedone occidere~ur, is qui C~n{bntinopolim,fal~te ipfi per JUSJUranelum promifia, venerat. Zozomen.lib. f· Appsan.aeb1Po fivili lib. I. Pan. in c. cltnctu de ju~ejur. Sil. in verbo jrt.r4men~· ~ tJ"· 2.). '· 17· ibi. Tbom. He b. 6. 17, 1 8. "" Ita recte vem preto 1P ~23, fi'ut ap'erta lo,util -vocf!tUr 'fltritM, Dan.7. 16· & 8, .zd, 6" 10. i. · , confalattofl, 22) t on[ilation. For the underltandino of which words, we muft know the holy Writers often [peak of God 4;9,onrodti'~ and rather according to that which feem~ to us, than that which is. For, God dot~ not trulY change his Decrees · yet is he J n · . fa·d t ha d ' 0 1 o c nge an. . to repent "", as oft ""Co:an. c4i·l . IT.o ~ as he dot~ ocherw11e' than the words iee-ler. S.c. 1.,]11- med . t? iound; to wit, by reafon ofa rarenaf!Jq; Dei • . condmon tacitly underfiood .... th eft '4fe1p{r~ordl. £ th J ' a t cca- nata nullatenUI e ' ~er. I 8. 8. ~x~mpl~-s are frequem cotZvtUtre: to be. feen. In ~htch tenfc alfo God p.er)itere veriJ, may zmproper~y be {aid to deceive us :and ea.,dcm rHdjnAta-J th1e word {h4 M~, bt hat appears in th~ e fa l' d tvuel tvePrelu mR~tt,cut1l!tl:t- P ace t~ t e. He rews ' is wont to have Gr;lC.i~us in the figmficauon of an event frufl:ratino cauf.am u. q:' hope , as we may fee in fundry *placet 4· explicata And this proceeds molt eafily in com . ~ vero ut in tex~ n · b · ml tu noftro r.at!Ons' ecauie they do not confer a,. S • 'd , 1 oht on · ·r eoec. VI e , t? any ; m rromues fometiflleS, to Na.r. ~xft. "Wlt, where a certam condition is fecretly "· 37· . .. couched. Therefore doth the ApofiJe."' Gen. 2.o. 3.: name two things ' that note immutabili- Exvd. 3z. 14. ty , the pro mt· re , be cau fec .l t o.t..v es a rioht . zI RR.ee~g . 2:-.oI . "I 9•· ~nd the oath , becaufe ic repels te,cit ,0 and Ef. 3S.r .. · • mfomefort latent con~itions; as we may Jona! J· ), IIJ fee, t Pfa!. 89. ·For, tis another thinoif,.. . the very nature of the buftl)eis openly de- J }evu. 6. 2.. clare £ ~· · 0 , ome con~mons. Whereunto fome E f.• s"8 4. · 2.7. :t.. rcfe~ t~at which is read, ~umb, 14_30 Ole. 1. ~.· ~ut lt IS more true, that the p~;omifed l;ui.d' Abac. 3. 17.' IS by oath appointed to tlw. h Job 41. 6. ' perfons b t h m ' not .t e 0 [e. 9· 2.. fl . 'fubt e people, that is, to the po-t Pf.tl,8,.3oj ,entyo t em,towhomGodhadfworn 3I,31.,H,3~, <t V ; ::!. 3: 35,36. |