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3. There are somethings indifferent; as Eating, or abstaining from such and such Meats or Drinks, or on such and such days: and although the thing be not simply unlawful, yet Oaths therein would be engaged in, with much Prudence, on such Grounds, and with such Qualifications and Conditions, as may make it appear▪ the Swearer is not using the Name of God unnecessarily, and that he cannot otherwise gain his Point: Nor superstitiously to make it appear, that he doth not bring his Conscience under a Yoke of Will-worship. One of which ways ordinarily men fail, in these Oaths; and so they are neither to Gods Honour, nor others good: and therefore such Oaths are either rarely to be engaged in, or not at all.

3. There are somethings indifferent; as Eating, or abstaining from such and such Meats or Drinks, or on such and such dayes: and although the thing be not simply unlawful, yet Oaths therein would be engaged in, with much Prudence, on such Grounds, and with such Qualifications and Conditions, as may make it appear▪ the Swearer is not using the Name of God unnecessarily, and that he cannot otherwise gain his Point: Nor superstitiously to make it appear, that he doth not bring his Conscience under a Yoak of Will-worship. One of which wayes ordinarily men fail, in these Oaths; and so they are neither to Gods Honour, nor others good: and therefore such Oaths are either rarely to be ingaged in, or not at all.

Next, such Oaths as to the occasions of parties engaging in them, may be divided into these three.

Next, such Oaths as to the occasions of parties ingaging in them, may be divided into these three.