A34242:144
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
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.
IV. An Oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words without equivocation, or mental reservationk: It cannot oblige to sin; but, in any thing not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, ⟨p. 53⟩although to a mans own hartl. Nor is it to be violated, although made to Heretics o• Infidelsm.
IV. An Oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words without equivocation, or mental reservationk: It cannot oblige to sin; but, in any thing not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, ⟨p. 53⟩although to a mans own hartl. Nor is it to be vio•ated, although made to Hereticks o• Infidelsm.
- kJer. 4.2. Psal. 24.14.Ier. 4.2. Psal. 24.14.
- l1 Sam 25.32, 33, 34.
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