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Show of WAr ~nd PeAct XIII. This is not to be extended : to promijing words ; nor ' to Oaths. · MOre over , we muA: know , what · we have faid of falfe fpeakino is to be ref.erd to aj[erting fpeech , and f~chas hurteth none but a publick enemy,not to tA,dilausand bromijin.(t.For,upon promife,as afore we withhiln Plu- 1 [ · · 1 d rare hd1· n·I n- egac n ,c o ay,. a pec1a an new riob ht is guHh fo. To conrer d to hun , to whom the prom& is violate l~agues made : and that hath place even amonoll is to cont,mn enemies, without any exception of ho(ti~ the Gods. 0- 1· b · I . f h ... 1cy now e1n~; nor on y m expre s pro· r erw11e to ·r '-J. deceive the e• mnes, but alfo m tacit, as in calling for nemy wich parly; as we lha11 declare , when we words' is n.ot come to that part which is of keep ina on11Y. ju!t, but faith in war. And further, that is rob~ ~ onous , pro- d fiuble and de- rep~ate out of our former Differtation of 'ightful. -' Oaths, whether an <Jath be aj[mive or : : promiffive , it hath the venue co exclude all exceptions_, which might be derived from the perion of him with whom we deal : becaule we have to do, not with man only , but with God, co whom we are bound by our Oath,although no right arHe to man. In the fame place we haye a1to iaid, that it is not in an Oath asln other words; wherein , that we may be excufed from a ly , are admitted any In· terpretations not altogether unu(ual; bllt tr1J.th is exaCt! y requir' d in· th:tc fenf~, which the man that hears it, is fuppoled verily 'The third p4rt. . 505 verily to underHand. So that, their im-piety is very much ro be detefied , who doubted not to affert, that as Childern wtth toys,fo men are to be deceived with Oatlis. XIV. It is more grievous and agruable to Chriftian JimplicitJ , to abftein from fal{e [peech al(o againft an enemJ. W E know .alfo , that fome kinds of frauds, which we have faid to be allowed ·naturally, were refufed by fome Nations or men: but that wa~, not out of an opinion of in jufiice , but by reafon of a certain magnamity , and fometime con- Arift. a ,.,.,.>..oficence of their own fireo9ch. In e/.Eltan -+·;~c -PI•· • .,. is extlnt a faying of PythagorM , That K-4/ ICJ!i.c'A>IS,un• m:tn comes neerdl unto God in two NAr. N}c. 4. 1. . . {' k' h 1 d TA ~tuil~ rl'lthings : m pea mg trut a ways , an ~orrp•"'''· in cloinggood to others : and in Jambli- Plutarch. chus, Veracity is faid to be the Guide to Philo in h is all aood both Divme and human. Ari- book, That ft ~:J, M · l fj l. every honcfi: otle s a~nammous man oves to pea"'-man isa free tr11th, ana boldly. Plutarch faith, It is m1n , faith , a Jervt/e thing, toly. Arrianus .. of Pco- They are wont lome: To him, beint"' King, it WIU ~re to c2ll decei[~ difhonoHrable t·o ly , than to any other. fidnlll&. doubJ._ ' A' d . . l r · h' 11 • ea ers , mea ex an er * 1l1 t 1e rame menan ; It is of an illiberal unworthy of a King , to {pea/z.t~tny thing to and fervile his SuhieCfs, hut the Truth. Mamerti- !:'ir:td· nus of ]ulian : Admirable in our Prine~, .. z~~: ~: tS |
