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A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keep good conscience.A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
because children under government and tuition of parents can not give themselves. V. It binds not if it be made of a thing that is out of a ••ns power, as if a man swear to his friend to give him another mans goods. VI. If at the first it were lawful, and afterward by some means become either impossible or unlawful, it binds not conscience. For when it becomes impossible, then we may safely think that God from heaven frees a man from his oath. And when it begins to be unlawful, then it ceaseth to bind, because the binding virtue is only from the word of God. For example: a king binds himself by oath to a foreign Christian prince to find him men & money to defend his people against all enemies. This oath is lawful. Well, afterward the prince becomes a professed enemy to him, his religion, & people: and then the kings oath becomes unlawful and binds him not: because the word forbids that there should be any league of amity with Gods enemies: though there may be leagues of concord with them.
because children under gouernment and tuition of parents can not giue themselues. V. It bindes not if it be made of a thing that is out of a ••ns power, as if a man sweare to his friend to giue him another mans goods. VI. If at the first it were lawfull, and afterwarde by some meanes become either impossible or vnlawfull, it binds not conscience. For when it becomes impossible, then wee may safely thinke that God from heauen frees a man from his oath. And when it beginnes to be unlawfull, then it ceaseth to bind, because the binding vertue is onely from the worde of God. For example: a king bindes himselfe by oath to a forraine Christian prince to find him men & money to defende his people against all enemies. This oath is lawfull. Well, afterward the prince becomes a professed enemy to him, his religion, & people: and then the kings oth becomes unlawful and binds him not: because the word forbids that there should be any league of amitie with Gods enemies: though there may be leagues of concord with them.
Seeing a lawful oath must bind conscience, though a man be deceived and great losses follow, it shows in how great reverence we should have Gods name, and with what care and consideration