Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 22
Of lawful Oaths and Vows
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3. Whosoever takes an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act; and therein to avouch nothing, but what he is fully persuaded is the truth.a Neither may any man bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believes so to be, and what he is able, and resolved to perform.b Yet is it a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful Authority.c
Proofs
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Commentary
- David Dickson, Truths Victory over Error (1684), on 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6, 22.7
Related texts
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 22.3
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (modernized, 1689) 23.3
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized, 1658) 23.3
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Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized, 1646) 22.3, symbolics.dev/wcf1646-modernized/22.3
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