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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Answ. Yes; if that Oath did only tie you to perform your promise; and were no Vow to God which made him a party, by dedicating any thing to him: For then the Oath being but subservient to the promise, he that dischargeth you from the promise, dischargeth you also from the Oath which bound you honestly to keep it.
Answ. Yes; if that Oath did only tye you to perform your promise; and were no Vow to God which made him a party, by dedicating any thing to him: For then the Oath being but subservient to the promise, he that dischargeth you from the promise, dischargeth you also from the Oath which bound you honestly to keep it.
§. 37. Quest. 30. Am I bound by a promise when the cause or reason of it proveth a mistake?1
- 1Quest. 30.
Answ. If by the Cause you mean only the extrinsical Reasons which moved you to it, you may be obliged nevertheless for finding your mistake: Only so far as the other was the culpable cause (as is aforesaid) he is bound to satisfy you: But if by the Cause you mean the formal reason, which constituteth the contract, then the mistake may in some cases nullify it: (of which enough before.)
Answ. If by the Cause you mean only the extrinsical Reasons which moved you to it, you may be obliged nevertheless for finding your mistake: Only so far as the other was the culpable cause (as is aforesaid) he is bound to satisfie you: But if by the Cause you mean the formal reason, which constituteth the contract, then the mistake may in some cases nullifie it: (of which enough before.)