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Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common…Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common…
Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common sins; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkenness, whoredom, and bribery. Wherein the greatness and odiousness of these vices is discovered; and the means and remedies, which may either preserve, or wean men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common sinnes; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkennesse, whoredome, and briberie. Wherein the greatnes and odiousnesse of these vices is discouered; and the meanes and remedies, which may either preserue, or weane men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By Iohn Dovvname Batcheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, 1609
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.
The fifth question is like unto the former,1 and therefore needeth no long answer, namely, whether oaths made through error, and wrested from us by deceit and fraud, do bind the conscience unto performance. I answer briefly, that they do bind us, if the things we promise by such oaths be lawful and in our power. A plain example whereof we have in the oath which Joshua and the Princes of Israel made unto the Gibeonites,2 to the making whereof they were drawn by their subtlety, quite against their purpose and meaning: which oath, for the reverence of Gods glorious name, Joshua, and the Princes performed, and afterwards being violated by Saul, 3it was severely punished by God with a grievous famine, and the destruction of seven of Sauls posterity.
The fifth question is like vnto the former,1 and therefore needeth no long answere, namely, whether oathes made through error, and wrested from vs by deceit and fraud, doe binde the conscience vnto performance. I answere briefly, that they do bind vs, if the things we promise by such oathes be lawfull and in our power. A plaine example whereof wee haue in the oath which Iosua and the Princes of Israel made vnto the Gibeonites,2 to the making wherof they were drawn by their subtiltie, quite against their purpose and meaning: which oath, for the reuerence of Gods glorious name, Iosua, and the Princes performed, and afterwards being violated by Saul, 3it was seuerely punished by God with a grieuous famine, and the destruction of seuen of Sauls posteritie.
- 1§. Sect. 11. Whether oaths made through error do bind the conscience.§. Sect. 11. Whether oaths made through errour do bind the conscience.
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