Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order · Chapter 23
Of lawful Oaths and Vows
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4. An Oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation: It cannot oblige to sin, but in any thing not sinful being taken it bindes to performance, although to a mans own hurt; nor is it to be violated, although made to Hereticks or infidels.
Related texts
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized, 1658) 23.4
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 23.4
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 23.4
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 22.4
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