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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
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III. Whosoever taketh an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing, but what he is fully persuaded is the Truthg, Neither may any man▪ bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believeth so to be, and what he is able and resolved to performh. Yet it is a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful Authorityi.
III. Whosoever taketh an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing, but what he is fully perswaded is the Truthg, Neither may any man▪ bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believeth so to be, and what he is able and resolved to performh. Yet it is a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful Authorityi.
- gExod. 20.7. Jer. 4.2.Exod. 20.7. Ier. 4.2.
- hGen 24.2. to 9.
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