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The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
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IV. If it be made by those, who are under the tuition of their superiors, and have no power to bind themselves; as by children which are under the government of their Parents: For these are part of their parents goods, and therefore not fit to undertake an oath, without their consent. Neither are they to choose a calling, or make any contract of themselves, but only by the direction and ⟨p. 396⟩advise of their parents; though some of the Popish sort do erroneously teach, that a child may bind himself by oath, to become a Monk of this or that order, without Consent of Parents.
IV. If it be made by those, who are vnder the tuition of their superiours, and haue no power to binde themselues; as by children which are vnder the gouernment of their Parents: For these are part of their parents goods, and therefore not fit to vndertake an oath, without their consent. Neither are they to choose a calling, or make any contract of themselues, but onely by the direction and ⟨p. 396⟩aduise of their parents; though some of the Popish sort do erroniously teach, that a child may binde himselfe by oath, to become a Monke of this or that order, without Consent of Parents.
V. If it be made of things impossible: for then it is a vain oath.
V. If it be made of things impossible: for then it is a vaine oath.
VI. If at the first it were lawful, and afterward become impossible and unlawful. For such oaths God himself may be said to reverse. Thus if a man bind himself by oath to live in single life without marriage, and after finds that God-hath not given him the gift of continency; in this case, his oath becomes impossible to be kept, and therefore being reversed by God, and becoming unlawful, it may be broken without impiety.