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B20451 Justice vindicated from the false fucus [i.e. focus] put upon it, by [brace] Thomas White gent., Mr. Thomas Hobbs, and Hugo Grotius as also elements of power & subjection, wherein is demonstrated the cause of all humane, Christian, and legal society : and as a previous introduction to these, is shewed, the method by which men must necessarily attain arts & sciences / by Roger Coke.; Reports. Part 10. French Coke, Roger, fl. 1696. 1660 (1660) Wing C4979 450,561 399

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in himself from the seed of the Devil And if he hath misled any one out of the way that he might make any gain thereof let him carefully reduce him to the right way This is that which I will If he shall have provoked any one to sin let him do to him what is necessary viz. Let him reclaim him from his sins and again lead him in the right way He who diligently dehorts another from his sins renders his own the lighter 17. This judgment every one by the councel of his Confessor may give himself who with a constant mind will break off his sins and correct them viz. Let him distribute for Gods love all he hath let him leave with them lands country and all the desirable things of this world and serve the Lord day and night and endeavor by all the power he can against his worldly desires all the daies of his life What then is left that by exhorting others he gathers to him for the study of godliness by all possible means he can Here in these following shall be said how any Sick man may redeem his declared Fast 18. Every man may redeem the fast of one day with one penny and any one may redeem the fast of one day with two hundred and twenty Psalms and any one may redeem the fast of twelve moneths with 30s. or by setting free any one of that price And for one daies fast let him sing six times Beati and also six times Pater noster and for the fast of one day let that man bend his knee and bow himself to the ground sixty times saying Pater noster And also a man may absolve the fast of one day if in his prayers to God he through all his members lift up himself to God by true confession and right faith and fifteen times sing Miserere mei Deus and also Pater noster fifteen times Then is a lightening of the sins of the whole day granted to him 19. Any man may absolve a seven Winters fast in one year if he daily shall sing the Psalms of the Psalter and do the same at night and fifty on the evening one Mass may absolve the fast of twelve daies and with ten Masses the fast of four moneths may be bought off and with thirty Masses the fast of a whole year may be bought off if any man will out of true love to God intercede for himself and confess his sins to his Confessor and amend those things as he is bidden and alwaies afterward avoid them Of the Penance of Mighty men 1. Thus a mighty man and having many friends may by the help of his friends mitigate his penance First in the name of God and by the testimony of his Confessor let him manifest a right faith and forgive all who may have sinned against him and make his confession without any omission of his sins and endeavour to repent and take his penance with much grief 2. Then let him lay down his Arms and unprofitable things and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and taking his staff in his hand let him go diligently barefoot and let him use hair-shirts nor come on a bed but lie in a cottage and do this the number of seven years and prepare himself three years on this manner and take to his aid twelve of his companions let them fast three daies with bread crude pottage and water and let him get as well as he can to finish the work seven times an hundred and twenty men who may every one of them fast for his sake three daies so the number of these Fasts will amount to so many Fasts as there are daies in the seven years 3. When any one fasts let him distribute the dishes wherein his meat was to all the poor men of God and in the three daies of his Fast let him lay aside all worldly business and day and night as often as he can go to Church and diligently watch there in Alms light and cry to God and beg remission of sins with a sorrowful spirit and bended knees Also let him often stretch himself upon the sign of the Cross now standing upright now prostrate upon the ground and let every mighty man learn sincerely to weep and deplore his sins and also on those three daies feed as many poor men as he can upon the fourth let him stoop down to wash their feet and let there upon the same day be celebrated for the Penitent so many Masses as any one can by any means perform and on the time of the Masses let him be absolved and then let him take the Eucharist unless that through too much guilt he be so hindred that he dares not take it Yet let him promise for the future as much as in him lies alwaies to do well and whilst he lives by Gods help to avoid injustice so as he may alwaies and rightly hold his Christendom and renounce Heathenism Minde O ye Ministers of God his words and diligently correct his works that so he may set up all Justice and by the help of God as much as in him lies destroy Injustice It is very necessary he should perform that to God even in the least thing which he hath promised 4. This is the lightening of the penance of Great men who abound in many friends But it is not granted to an Indigent man to proceed so It is therefore expedient more strongly to exact this of him and that as is meet that every one should wash away his sins and undergo himself his correction Scriptum est enim Quia unusquisque onus suum portabit These Canons are set out in the Original by Abraham VVheelock and by him translated into Latine in his Addition to the History of Bede between the Laws of King Edgar and Ethelred pag. 65. until 88. Ecclesiastical Laws made by Canutus who began to reign in the year of our Lord 1016. THis is the Decree which Canutus King of England of Denmark and Norway by the counsel of the wise men to the glory of the Immortal God the ornament of the Royal Majesty and the utility of the people hath ordained at Winchester upon * * Christmas day Midwintertide 1. First of all let all men devoutly and holily worship only one God and strictly hold themselves to one rule of Christian religion and obey with all faith and observance King Canutus 2. And protect Gods Church and defend it and frequent it as well for the health of our soul as the commodity of others It is meet that one peace be comprehended in all Christian Churches and also that all Christian men have it in great veneration For Gods peace is to be wished for before other things next after that the Kings peace is to be kept It is therefore very meet that the peace of the Church of God and the tranquillity delivered into the Kings hand be alwaies kept inviolable If any man shall violate either let him be fined and suffer death
Temporal Dominions and therefore may punish disturbers of the peace of the Church as well as the State Yet when the Temporal Magistrate shall arrogate to himself a power which our Saviour only left to his Church and make all Ecclesiastical rights and constitutions depending and subordinate to the Civil whereby the Enemies of our Church have taxed our Religion not for Christian but Parliamentary no doubt but it is a crying sin and I wish there had never been any such thing among us 19. And as God is to be obeyed before men in all things which concern Or the Laws of Nature Faith and Religion so in the observance of the Laws of Nature is God to be obeyed before men As if a King commands me to dishonor my parents this can be but a Humane law but to honor my parents is a law which God hath written in my heart and therefore ought to be preferred If a King commands his Subjects to dishonor him or to deny obedience to him this is but a Humane law whereas by the law of Nature I ought to honor and obey my King I therefore ought not to obey such a law Amurath the Second of that name King of the Turks upon a Vow resigned his Kingdom to his son Mahomet yet upon the League made by Uladislaus King of Pole and Hungary with other Christian Princes against him he resumed his Regal authority and so kept it until his death And so might Charls the Fifth if he had pleased nor was Philip any other then an Instrument of his Fathers during his Fathers life The King makes a Law giving the succession of the Crown from the right Heir This ought not to be received for Princes inherit by a higher Law then Humane 20. The King commands a Judge to pervert Judgment the Judge Or to pervert Judgment ought to give true Judgment for all Humane Laws in peaceable times ought to be â priori and proclaimed that all men after such a time should observe them This verbal command of the King wanting this formality and it being impossible for the Judge to observe both these commands he ought notwithstanding this verbal command to give Judgment according to Law The King when there is no necessity or publick danger commands me Quaere who am no publick Executioner without any Judicial sentence to put a man to death for which he can make no compensation As Davids commanding Joab to murder Uriah although we find David only reprehended and punished therefore yet sure if Joab had not fulfilled Davids wicked command he had not sinned But you may object Who shall judge whether this thing commanded be repugnant to Gods Majesty Mans faith Religion or the Law of Nature the King or the Subject I say though the Subject hath not an equal right of judging with the King whether this thing should be a Law or not yet every Subject hath a Conscience as well as the King which must dictate Whether Kings divest themselves of Regality by commanding what they ought not to him whether he ought to do or not to do such a thing 21. But if the King commands things contrary to Gods Majesty and Divine Laws ought he not to be obeyed in those things which do not contradict them It is so mad and wild an objection as it is scarce worth an answering unless a man will affirm that my doing of an act which I ought not to have done does divest me of Humane nature or that a Fathers or Masters commanding his Son or Servant what he ought not doth annihilate the relations of Father and Son Master and Servant or that Humane acts may dissolve Humane relations A Prince therefore ought to be obeyed in those things which he ought to command as Prince although he command such things as he ought not 22. It may be it will be objected That Temporal punishments being Though inflicting punishment for not observance the usual concomitants for not observing Humane Laws a good and conscientious man may be punished for what he ought not to have done I say his case is the same with his Lords and Saviours and all those blessed and glorious primitive Christians and Martyrs who suffered for the testimony of a good conscience Nor hath God made Heaven so easie a prize that it should be always won easily and delicately but many times by suffering and martyrdom 23. It is the most usual thing with seditious men before they enter Whether Princes ought to be resisted where they are not to be obeyed into open sedition to prepare mens mindes with certain Cases wherein Princes commanding things derogatory to Gods Honor or the Subjects Liberty that then in the preservation of themselves and Gods honor they ought to defend themselves from the raging Tyrannie of Princes and to be sure that whatsoever they command these good men will judge contrary to Gods Honor and the Liberty of the Subject It is worth the while if a mans patience will give him leave to look back upon the thing calling it self Parliament how after they had made the King grant whatsoever they could think might be beneficial to the Subjects though I might be sworne they never intended as plainly appeared afterward the good benefit or liberty of the Subject what pious ways they invented to make themselves great and so good a Prince nothing and odious to his Subjects As the demanding of six men holding intelligence with his Subjects who had been in open hostility and rebellion against him an affront not to be endured by any King to an ordinary and Legal Trial this was not only denied but Voted a Breach of the Priviledge of Parliament whenas the Priviledge of Parliament extends not to so much as breach of the Peace much less to Treason They pretend though most falsly that in case of extreme danger and necessity the Militia is in the Parliament meaning themselves excluding the King And then create Dangers and write Letters how great Fleets of Danes Swedes Hollanders c. were seen at Sea It must be from Westminster then for there were the Letters written and the Fleets never since heard of Then permit if not command the most insufferable affronts and indignities that ever were offered to Majesty yet if the King but offers to increase his Guard this is Voted no less then a raising of War against his Parliament and Subjects whilst all the while against the Lex consuetudo Parliamenti Inst par 4. 14. without any cause moving them they maintain an illegal Rout of men for their Guard and go armed themselves Nay what needs a man instance particulars All the Kings commands in prosecution of the Laws were Voted breaches of the Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberties of the Subject We will therefore shew that this Assertion is not only contrary to all Faith in both Testaments but also destructive to all Humane Society 24. There is no man sure will deny but
or at least ought to be a Presbyter but every Presbyter is not a Bishop For St. Paul saies Against an Elder or Presbyter receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 19. But equals cannot judge equals therefore Timothy as a Presbyter could not judge a Presbyter therefore he should judge him as being Bishop and so by consequence Presbyters are subject to the judgment of Bishops that is in Episcopal jurisdiction Besides Bishops have power of ordination of Presbyters in every City 1 Tit. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 22. but it is no where found that ever Presbyters did ordain Bishops It is not therefore Ecclesiastical practice only that is the universal practice of all Christians in all ages untill John Calvin but the institution of our Saviour by which Bishops do excell and govern Presbyters It was after the destruction of Jerusalem that Episcopi Presbyteri caepere appellari Pontifices sacerdotes as the most learned Estius observes and that the name of Priest is not a Jewish Distin 24. l. 4. pag. 35 36. word is evident for Melchisedech was not a Jew and yet a Priest and our Saviour a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech 11. What St. Paul in the end of his Epistle to Timothy calls Bishop of An Apostle and Bishop the same the Ephesians St. John Revel 2. 1. calls Angel of the Church of the Ephesians So St. Paul and St. John understand the same thing by Angel and Bishop but Angelus and Apostolus are the same and therefore Episcopus and Apostolus are the same But what need that be proved by deduction which the Apostle Gal. 1. 19. expresseth For James was none of the twelve yet being Bishop of Jerusalem St. Paul testifies him to be an Apostle Besides it is evident Episcopatus is the office as well of an Apostle as a Bishop Act. 1. 20. There is therefore no difference between an Apostle and a Bishop only Apostles constituted by our Saviour had their function universal whereas the Bishops or Apostles ordained by the Apostles had but a Topical function that is the exercise of their power was restrained to their City or Diocess And all Ecclesiastical writers do affirm that St. James did preside in the Council of Jerusalem although St. Peter with other of the Apostles were Members of it 12. Our Saviour having promised the ghostly power of Confirmaion Ordination The Power of Bishops which Priests have not c. to be with his Church to the end of the world and the power of Ordination Confirmation and Excommunication being bequeathed only to the Apostles the power of Ordination Confirmation and Excommunication descend only to the Apostles successors viz. Bishops rightly ordained 13. Not the voice and letter but the genuine and true sense of the Of the interpretation of Scriptures Word of God is the Canon of Christian Doctrine for the minde cannot be governed by Scriptures unless understood It is necessary therefore that Scriptures be interpreted before they be made a rule It will therefore follow that either God hath left a Power which may interpret Scripture or else that God hath revealed himself to Men without sense or meaning but the latter of these is most false and blasphemous therefore it is true that God hath left a power upon earth which may interpret the Scriptures 14. If the Scriptures were as Arts and Sciences which are derived from The Scriptures cannot be interpreted by themselves that is one place by another higher Principles or Axiomes which though they cannot be proved but are as Aristotle calls them indemonstrable propositions yet are so clear and manifest that no exception can be taken to them then indeed the Scriptures as well as Arts and Sciences might be proved one place by another untill they were resolved to their first Principles which though granted cannot be proved But it is far otherwise with the Scriptures for there is no Scripture which is not of like Authority with any other every Scripture being the Word of God one place of Scripture therefore cannot be interpreted by the consequents which may follow from another any more then the consequents which follow from Quae eidem sunt aequalia inter se sunt aequalia may be interpreted by Omne totum est majus sua parte 15. There is no prophesie of the Scripture of any private interpretation Not all they who do translate the Scriptures are the intepreters of them 2. Pet. 1. 20. It is not therefore every one who can translate the Scripture out of one language into another with his own private conceptions upon them which renders them to be interpreted by him What then hath God revealed himself to mankind in general without sense or meaning No it does not follow for as in temporal Laws no man can interpret them but he that made them either by himself or them whom he shall constitute yet every man may by his reason and discourse direct his own actions in conformity to those Laws but if he shall do any act upon misconstruction or interpretation of his own his mistaking the meaning of the Law shall not excuse him So private men may endeavor to direct their actions accordingly as they suppose God hath directed them in the Scriptures yet if upon their own heads they undertake to interpret the Scriptures although in order only to their own actions their misunderstanding the Scriptures shall never excuse any unjust act 16. Every Law of God is the Word of God but every Word of God is not the Law of God as Jacob went into Egypt is the Word but not the To whom the Authority of the interpretation of Scripture doth belong the Law of God The Scriptures contain Political Historical Moral and Natural things which are not rules of the mystery of Christian Faith and Religion Those things which concern Morality and Temporal power and Government our Saviour made no alteration in them for he saies St. Matth. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfil And therefore quid est homicidium quid furtum quid sit meum vel tuum c. belongs to the Temporal power as much since our Saviour as before and truly I do not think I should do the Church of England any wrong if I should with Lindwood affirm that not only the Probate of Wills but also the cognisance of Tithes was in the Church ex consuetudine Angliae but those things which relate to mysteries of Christian faith as our Saviors being the Son of God took humane nature upon him and was born of a Virgin preached repentance died upon the cross for the sinnes of the world rose again the third day c. God to make his power known by the preaching of a few mean men and Fishermen and from the mouths of babes and sucklings all Temporal power not only not permitting but
Heathen let him be unworthy to enjoy any benefit of Christian folk unless he speedily redeem him home again because he had sold him from home And if he cannot do this let him distribute that price altogether on Gods grace and free another Captive with another ransom and set him free And this let him fulfill three years as his Confessor shall appoint And if he hath not means by which he may redeem the Captive let him increase his punishment into seven years penance and alwaies lament 46. If any shall grievously offend by manifold sinning and desires at length to leave and correct these things let him often go to the Monastery and there alwaies serve God and man as he shall be taught or let him depart a great way from his country and alwaies repent whilst he lives and help his soul at least her eon earth with all profound amendment which he may find as shall be taught him Of Satisfaction 1. In this kind of confession the help of some Divine does very much conduce to the expiation of sin not less then the counsel of some learned Physitian to the curing of a disease 2. Oftentimes men sin by concupiscence and sometimes through the instigation of the Devil and that is most terrible that men bound to God so often against God as they lose their dignity 3. And to amend this there is need of severe penance but alwaies according to the manner of the order and sin as is ordained in the Canons and every one ought with all his strength and endeavour and also with trouble from the bottom of his heart to go about this Some may undergo the penance of one year some of more but alwaies after the manner of the sin some of one moneth others of more some of one week others of more weeks and some of one day others of more and some all the daies of their life 4. It behoves a Physitian who will heal grievous wounds to make use of exquisite medicines But there are none so grievous wounds as these sins for these wounds lead men to eternal death unless by confession repentance or satisfaction they make themselves whole 5. Therefore both man and woman may be Physitians who should heal these wounds First the wound is to be inquired into by good counsel then the ulcerated matter which does inwardly putrifie is to be let out that is he purge himself through confession 6. Every man who will blot out his sins by confession embraces found doctrine not less then he who takes a healthful potion from the Physitian a deadly disease 7. No Physitian can rightly cure any disease or wound until the venemous matter which putrifies inwardly be drawn out Neither can any man rightly teach penance who refuses to confess nor can without confession of sins pronounce absolution like as he cannot well be made sound who hath drunk any deadly thing unless the venemous force be expelled 8. Confession being finished any man may by penance easily obtain Gods mercy if he does this from the bottom of his heart and moreover deplore that he seduced by the Devil committed these sins 9. A prudent amendment does very much benefit this confession as the cure of a sickness a good Physitian Concerning the works of any one the Confessor may enquire by the Canons and moderate according to the power and wealth of them confessing as he believs the contrition and carefulness of any ones heart 10. That is great penance when a Laick must lay down his arms and make pilgrimage far and neer barefoot who must not lie two nights in one place who fasts much and watches who daies and nights prays earnestly and who willingly wearies himself and who is so untrimmed that no iron hath touched his hair or nails 11. Who neither comes into warm bath nor soft bed nor tastes flesh nor drink which may make him drunk who comes not into a Church but yet zealously seeks holy places and confesses his sins and asks intercession who kisses no body yet bitterly deplores his sins 12. He is propitious to himself who in this manner prejudgeth himself And indeed this man is happy although in nothing he is more unwatchful then that he might fully correct himself Neither was there ever in the world any so grievous a sinner but he might appease God if he ardently went this way 13. There are many waies to appease God for sins and alms do very much conduce to the forgiveness of them 14. He who hath means sufficient let him build a Church to the praise of God and if he hath more besides let him give land to it and bring in young men who may perform holy service for him and therefore daily minister to God and let him repair Gods Church for his means and High-waies let him make Bridges over unpassable waters and dirty places let him distribute for Gods sake that which he has and with as much diligence as he can let him carefully relieve the poor widows orphans and strangers let him manumiss his own servant let him redeem servants from other men to be set free especially the poor man taken in war let him feed and clothe men in want and allow them houseroom and firing and bath and bedding and in his necessity in all places let him make intercession in singing Masses and Psalms and let him in his devotion towards his Lord God very much chastise himself by abstaining from meat and drink and all other bodily desires 15. And he who hath less means let him set himself all he can that in his devotion towards God he paies tithes of all he possesseth that he examine himself as often as he can and often with alms visit Churches and salute Holy places with lights and give his house meat and protection to them that need and also fire and some nourishment and bed and bath and take care to clothe and feed the poor as much as he can 16. For Gods love let him visit the sorrowful and sick and bury the dead often in secret lie prostrate upon his knees and often lie prostrate and stretched out upon the ground let him fast watch and pray night and day diligently He who hath not means sufficient to perform all these things let him endeavour to do as much as he is able Let him wear out his body against lust if ever by delicacie or lust he hath pleased the devil Now let him by fasting correct that sin which before he had committed by gluttony and let him often watch and labor if at any time he were wonted to the contrary and given to ease when he ought not or had at other times beyond measure watched in vain Let him afflict himself with cold and frozen baths for that heat whereof he sinned by lust If he hath any where offended another unjustly let him diligently make amends and if another hath offended him let him be appeased as much as in him lies against those sins which grew up
cannot prove what he saith by the testimonies given the accuser may take the excommunication of the accused and let no man believe him concerning himself declaring upon another crime but a confession extorted by fear or fraud is invalid Let a Priest beware that whosoever confesses his sins to him he tell no body of them because he confesseth to him not to his neighbors or strangers which thing if he do let it be set down and repent all the days of his life ignobly in Pilgrimage And if at any time a Bishop says any man hath confessed to him any proper crime and he deny it let not the Bishop think it does not belong to his injury that he is not believed for himself alone and if for scruple of his conscience he says he will not communicate to him oftentimes good men are silent and suffer the ill things which they have known because they are forsaken in their documents and cannot allow of their Judges for although they are true yet are they not believed of the the Judge unless they be proved by certain appearances But we cannot at all forbid men from the Communion although this Prohibition be not mortal but medicinal unless men confess of their own accord and be convicted by judgement From hence it is such a man is to be named as the Apostle says who confesses or is convinced by ordinary judgement but if by judgement it cannot be taken away let it rather be tolerated lest some man in perversly avoyding ill men departing from the Church should go before them to Hell The Communion does not defile any man by partaking the Sacraments but the confession of their deeds other mens sins hurt not him who lives well in the Church Of habit and clothing we read nothing commanded by God what things are for pomp are forbidden And if you shall ask Canst thou not have an humble heart in a proud dressing as Hester God not onely in his anger but also pitty overthrows sinners And they are overthrown two ways either as the Sodomites where the men were punished for their sins or as the Ninivites where the very sins of the men were punished and destroyed and all men are alike to beloved but you cannot alike profit with all these are rather to be advised with who for the opportunity of time and places and of other things are more strictly joyned together To thee either is guilty both he which hides the truth and he which tels a lie because this will not profit and that desires to hurt arrogance is not so to be shunned that truth should be left He that at any time shall accuse a Priest before friendly admonition to his Judges or Secular Judges let him be excommunicated If a Bishop shall have strayed from the faith or secretly admonished of his subjects hath appeared incorrigible then let him be accused at the Archbishops or Apostolical seat for his other actions he ought rather to be tolerated then corrected If any Bishop be accused for certain crimes let him be heard of all the Bishops in his Province not condemned nor judged before he has lawful accusers present and of his Province not aliens and he may not refuse Judges elected by him unless there be an Appeal which thing is lawful for them designed for punishment but no affliction or the keeping the thing detained ought to injure the Appellant or the vitiated Cause ayded by remedy of the Appeal Some men have demanded a year and six moneths to be granted for filling up the Machinations of unskilful men and to prepare their Reasons and confirm Witnesses and seek Counsel some men a year in which time most men agree but less then six moneths cannot be found But if Bishops or Clerks were ejected by force or fear or first dispoyled of their goods let all their goods be legally restored to them and have so much time as appeared they were disseised before that they be Canonically called in to Judgement Gregory in the Decrees A Presbyter or Deacon or any Clerk accused by the people if the Witnesses who should prove the truth were not certain of the crime committed let an Oath be in the mean and bring him for a witness of the purity of his innocency to whom all things are naked and open Also this thing St. Sixtus the Pope remembers he had done to one Bassus although made guilty by much examination he could sufficiently evade the suspicion and avoid the emulation Jerom upon Jeremy lib. primo not giving this to them who would not or of their own accord had not made choice of making a form An Oath ought to have companions Truth Justice and Judgement if those things be wanting it is not an Oath but perjury For if any one by compulsion be compelled to abjure that thing which for many years he hath quietly held the perjury shall not be by him swearing but by him compelling It makes not a man guilty where the minde is not guilty Let no man circumvent or deceive himself He who by a false stone swears is perjured by whatsoever art of words any one swears God so takes as he to whom men swear does understand But without doubt it is a less evil to swear truly by a false God then to swear falsly by a true God for by how much more that by which men swear is more holy so much more punishale is perjury Who exacts an Oath it is much to the purpose if he knows that to be a false Oath or not knows or knows and gives sentence the Laws are mine as my faith stands I dare not say it is no sin yet it is a humane temptation if he knows him to have done it and compels him to swear it is Homicide Siquis juret falsumte sciente si te non audierit utrum sit procedendus si proditus periculum mortis incurrat difficillima questio est cui plus noceat illi cui juratur an Sacerdoti Mihi videtur quod ille cui magis prodest vel obest veritatem jurare necessitate cogente non est peccatum An Oath is not to be kept when bad it is unadvisedly pronounced The Oath of a son and daughter the father not knowing it and Vowes of a Monk the Abbot not knowing of it and the Oaths of a childe are void Of the Pleas of the Church belonging to the King Cap. 11. There are some Pleas of Christianity in which the King hath part in this manner If the King should suffer that he who in the Church hath committed Homicide let him come to amendment First let him restore to the Bishop and King the price of his Nativity and so he may inlaw himself and then let him dispose five pounds for the peace of the Church and seek to be reconciled to the Church as belongs to it and fully make amends both to Kindred and Donation If any man detains the right Tenth let the Sheriff of the Bishop and King and of