A37046:518
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
There remain yet some things concerning Oaths, especially Promissy Oaths to be cleared. As 1. How Promissory oaths differ from an Assertory Oath.
And 1. They agree in this, that Truth is the Scope of both. But. 2, They differ in this, that Assertatory Oaths, have but one Verity, to wit▪ That the thing be, in the Present time, true as the man sayeth or sweareth: But Promissory Oaths have a Twofold Verity, to wit; One present, that the Swearer meaneth what he promiseth. 2. That for the time to come he shall endeavour, effectually to make the thing Truth which he sayeth and sweareth: The First is only a Truth in the Person; The Second is also a Truth of the Thing or Matter.
2. We would difference Vows from Promissory Oaths. Vows have God both for Party and Witness. Oaths may have some other for Party, but God for Witness, to the giving an Oath or Promise to such a Party: Yet in some things there is a great Affinity, as to the matter, in both.
2. We would difference Vowes from Promissory Oaths. Vows have God both for Party and Witness. Oaths may have some other for Party, but God for Witness, to the giving an Oath or Promise to such a Party: Yet in some things there is a great Affinity, as to the matter, in both.