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Show faith he pawned ttJ commit a fin, it iJ ftrange 'ro call it faith. Bajil faith 'the fame, in his t{:cond to Amphilochiu.r. ' ' . XXXII. Or , which hinders a gr.eatcr moral! Good. · ~ ·· · YEa, although what is prom\s'd be not unlawful}, ·but hinders a greater ~~u•lt Ho•o· morall good t , in this cafe alio the oath rJ& de pac~ nun- will not be of value. The reafon is be-q11arn{ amnda r. fi . . ' eum tt~.larict~, cau1e we owe to G9d pro e1ency m good, Zo~moNarrtm- fo that we may not take away from out' ee •. V.ide Concil. felves the liberty thereof. Hither perraim 1J.!ltrt.!•d. loco. a remarkable paiTaae of the forecited Phi- Rmcman~m 1 h b 0d ['r. fJilo6r dillo ,o, wort y to e rea here : Some are o ;s opu[;lllD ad har4 and unfociable a nature , either a-iJZttmgatio- ter s 11J mankind, or en Jlav' d by that cruel Jtm 14· 1?'iftrefs anger,that they grow more obfti· n~tte in their feri.ty of manners by fweat ·i.ng , they will not admit Juch a ont t~ their Table or· within their doors, they willnever do him any good, they will never recetve any thint from him till death. That he faith, fome [war never tJ do good >t ~ide BabA to fuch or fuch*. the Hebrews c:tlled this 1(~1iM': ~ . fill. A vow concernint, beneficenc~. Thefo~m I.o~ & zbf nita- whereof, ~s the Hebrew Mafl:ers have It, rta a..n d oll·t flima t.S aoreea bl e to t ha t K orr'J ttn ·m t he GO irl. pel '· c,on;.antml. o d G d Levit. 5· 6. of this fenfe: Be it a g~ft ded!Cilte to 0 , k(at., r.·1· whatfoever good thou mightejf ever re· ceive from me. The vow, the pcn~ltyof confecration being a.dd(:d , was Judge~ very valld by the Hebrew ,Maflers ( ch: · wom The fectmd ,~ ~ woril interpreters in this part of divine Law) though 'twere made aaainlt one·s parents: which, in that plac~, is refuted by Chrift, ~n whofe words to honour is to ~; ~enefit,as appears by comparing the place · · m c.JUar~, and I Tim. 5. 3, 17. and Numb. z3. I I. Bur aaainH whomfoe-ver it is conceived , we fuall rightly pronounce the oath not obligatory, becaufe, as we have faid, it is againft proficiency. XXXIII. Of oaths about things impo/Jible. WE need_ not fpeak of things alto- Ad i~poffibi1e gether unpoffible : for it is rna· ~em•.nem olt- 'fi ft h h · !Jgara • nt e enoug t at no man ts o- • · ~hgedunto fuch. But, for that which ii I~pofiible for the time, Ol' upon fuppofi-tton, the obligation is pendent, fo that he who hath fworn upon a fuppofition is bound to do his bell: endeavour, to redder that poffible which he hath fworn. XXXIV. In oaths Gad u nt~med and in what Jen[e. ' THe for~ odf c;dwearing differs in words, . agrees m ee • For it ought to have t~ts ~enfe.' ~hat God may be invoked' to wu,,m thts manner ' god he witnefs or god be A venger ' wht:c h two are cJo' in' ci- ~ent, For ' when a Superiour ha vi no n~ht of punif'hin& is caJrd to vvitnefs~ there |