Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 22
Of lawfull Oathes and Vowes
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3. Whosoever taketh an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act; and therein to avouch nothing, but what hee is fully perswaded is the truth.a Neither may any man bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he beleiveth so to be, and what hee is able, and resolved to performe.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
Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.
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 (modernized, 1646) 22.3
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 23.3
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 23.3
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658) 23.3
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