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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
4. As to the expressions in which it is conceived, or the thing sworn; its required, not only that it be truth to, and in the mans meaning that sweareth, but that the expressions be plain and intelligible to his meaning and understanding, to whom the Oath is given; otherwise it deludeth, but doth not clear. Hence these two rules are to be observed. 1. That the meaning be so clear, as may be, and is most ordinarily and obviou ••y gathered ⟨p. 127⟩from such words and expressions as are used. 2. That the expressions be according as they are supposed to be understood by others, especially him that exacteth the Oath; for if he mean one thing, and we another, God's Name is profaned, and the end of an Oath frustrate; much more equivocations in expressions and mental reservations are to be condemned here; the first whereof taketh in Ambiguity in words; the second, a different sense in our thoughts from what seemeth to be meant in our words.
4. As to the expressions in which it is conceived, or the thing sworne; its required, not only that it be truth to, and in the mans meaning that sweareth, but that the expressions be plain and intelligible to his meaning and understanding, to whom the Oath is given; otherwise it deludeth, but doth not clear. Hence these two rules are to be observed. 1. That the meaning be so clear, as may be, and is most ordinarily and obviou ••y gathered ⟨p. 127⟩from such words and expressions as are used. 2. That the expressions be according as they are supposed to be understood by others, especially him that exacteth the Oath; for if he mean one thing, and we another, God's Name is prophaned, and the end of an Oath frustrate; much more equivocations in expressions and mental reservations are to be condemned here; the first whereof taketh in Ambiguity in words; the second, a different sense in our thoughts from what seemeth to be meaned in our words.