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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
Although the oath which Joshua and the Princes of Israel made to the Gibeonites, was made unadvisedly, and without asking counsel from the mouth of the Lord, yet some hundred years after being broken, that breach brought a national judgement, till justice was done upon the offenders. How much more may a National judgement be feared, if even in our days the contempt and violation of a most lawful and sacred oath, be winked at? Surely God will not wink at their sin, who wink at his dishonour. Better not to have vowed, then not to pay and perform.
Although the oath which Ioshua and the Princes of Israel made to the Gibeonites, was made unadvisedly, and without asking counsell from the mouth of the Lord, yet some hundred yeares after being broken, that breach brought a nationall judgement, till justice was done upon the offenders. How much more may a Nationall judgement bee feared, if even in our dayes the contempt and violation of a most lawfull and sacred oath, bee winked at? Surely God will not wink at their sinne, who wink at his dishonour. Better not to have vowed, then not to pay and performe.
3. When King Josiah made a solemn Covenant (the effect whereof was a through Reformation, the taking away of the ancient and long continued high places, the destroying of Baals Vessels, Altars, Priests, &c. 2 Kings 23. through out) he did not leave this Covenant arbitrary: But he caused all that were present in Jerusalem, and Benjamin to stand to it, 2 Chron. 34. 32. In all which he is set forth as a president to Christian Reformers, that they may know their duty in like cases.
3. When King Iosiah made a solemne Covenant (the effect whereof was a through Reformation, the taking away of the ancient and long continued high places, the destroying of Baals Vessels, Altars, Priests, &c. 2 Kings 23. through out) he did not leave this Covenant arbitrary: But he caused all that were present in Ierusalem, and Benjamine to stand to it,