The Obligation of Promissory Oaths, Index
An exact and large Table, of the most remarkable things contained in this Book.
The Number denotes the Page.
ABraham's league with Abimelech, 163
Accessaries extinct by the principal ceasing. 249
Act of an Oath implies reverence of the Divine Name. 8
Advisement to be took before one swear. 206
All obligation to duty, respecteth duty de futuro. 30
Any man may recede from his own right. 252
Asseverations, Attestations, and Oathes differ. 164
Assuerus …is oath to Esther. 96
B.
Bond of an Oath is indispensable. 234. 247
By my faith, and by my truth, are oathes. 167. 175
C.
Childrens oaths. 109
Christ generally forbids unnecessary oathes. 171
Commutation of an oath is unlawful. 242.
Confirmation the true end of an oath. 13
Conscience to be preferred to fear of punishment. 27
Cydias his oath. 240
D.
Davids oath touching Nabal. 19
Debts twofold. 25
Definition of an oath.
Dictates of conscience, binde us not to act against it. 84
Difference between an oath and a vow, 10. between an oath and an assertion. ibid.
in Doubtful matters the safest part is to be taken. 53
Doubting of an oath. 223
Drunken mens oathes. 111. it is unfit for them to swear. 112
Duty of subjects perpetually obligatory. 246
E.
Efficient cause of an oath twofold. 105
Egyptians oathes. 157. 170
Enraged mens oathes. 111. it is unfit for them to swear. 112
Error in the substance makes the oath invalid. 134
Every oath is in its nature binding. 30
Evill can receive no validity from an oath. 76
Exceptions and conditions to be prefumed in oathes. 54
Excessive curiosity of method to be avoided. 65
Extent and latitude of an oath. 215
F.
Faith and justice, firm bonds of humane society. 14.
Final cause of an oath. 16. 218
First and second intension of an oath. 216
Force of words. 167
Formes of oathes. 149
Formes of words. 165
G.
God swearing. 21
God chiefly called for a witnesse in all oaths 8. especially in true and formal oathes. 9
God is invocated in all oathes. 10
God not to be invocated as witnesse, but in doubts worthy his vindication. 93
H.
Hannibals oath. 108
Habit of swearing. 220
Heirs of the party s…earing, how far bound by his oath. 126
Herods oath. 4. 19. 97
He that …wears by Idols, swears by them he thinks to be Gods. 9
How to know whether a man have sworn o… …o. 163
I.
Jacobs covenant with Laban. 163
Jesuites defend AEquivocation. 194
Impossible things oblige not. 60. things may be impossible three wayes. ibid.
Impulsive causes of oathes. 130. they are twofold. ibid.
Intention of the party how to be judged. 130
Intention frees not a man from perjury. 224
Internal formes of oathes. 188
Josephs oath. 169
Joshuas oath. 19. 132
Irritation of a lawful Superior, cancels the bond of an oath. 247
Judahs oath to Thamar. 219
L.
Law twofold. 23
Lawful power required in an oath. 206
Lawful to swear to an Infide…. 122
M.
Madmens and fools oathes. 109
Manichees did swear frequently by the creature. 159
Matter of an oath either indefinite or definite. 66
Mentall reservation in oathes. 198
Minde and intention of the party swearing. 176
O.
Oathes of those who are not in their owne power. 115. without his consent in whose power they are. 117
Oathes made to Infidels ought to be kept. 122
Oathes are personall bonds. 127
Oathes obtained by fraud. 132
Oathes extorted by fear 135. by a slight fear 136. they bind. ibid.
Oathes made to Theeves are binding. 138
Oathes by signes without words. 151
Oathes by the creature 153. are unlawfull ibid. it is good to abstain from them, 157
Oathes made by Idols 160. are double sin. 161 yet they are obligatory. 162
Oathes according to the custome of the countrey. 174
Oathes given to Princes. 183
Oathes of Allegiance taken by Jesuites. 200
Oathes of Allegiance. 73
Oathes upon condition. 215
Oathes in complement. 221
Oathes religious acts. 6
Oathes ends of all contradictions. 13
Oathes are the greatest humane faith that can be. 15
Oathes assertory and promissory. 17
Oathes invoke God both as a witnesse and a Judge. 21
Oathes oblige the conscience. 29
Oathes instituted of God. 45
Oathes make not former Obligations void. 58
Oathes of things simply impossible, are not obligatory nor lawfull. 66
Oathes against the law of a community. 80
Oathes of things which the parties swearing think to be unlawfull. 82
Oathes impeditive of some future good. 86
Othes tending to some ones hurt. 88
Oathes giving scandal hinder them not from binding. 92
Oathes in cases indifferent both lawfull and binding. 93
Oathes binde in the matter of least moment. 94
Oathes of homage and Supremacy. 98
Oathes of members of Communities. 99
Oathes are of those things which are not evill in themselves, 264. nor desirable, ibid. good because necessary. ibid.
Oathes not to be taken with reluctancy, nor an unsatisfied conscience. 269
Object of an oath is a doubtful thing. 11
Obligation what it is. 23. it is twofold. 26
Obligation of conscience, ariseth precisely out of the debt of duty. 27
Obligation of an oath is stricti juris. 48. tempered with equity, but not corrupted with favour. 49
P.
Paulus Cortesius, and Peter Bembo too much affected to elegancy. 35
Perjury is of three sorts. 38
Perjury not taken away by any kinde of simulation. 41
Philosophers and Divines are not to affect oratory. 36
Pomponius his oath. 140
Promissory oathes. 17. under them Comminatory oathes are comprehended. 19. what difference between them and Assertory oathes. 29. to be understood in that sense as thé party to whom the oath is made intendeth. 209
Proper matter of an oath. 15
Proper obligation of a promissory oath. 31
Q.
Qualities required in one who deferreth an oath. 120
R.
Rational judgement required in an oath. 106
Relaxation freeth a man from his oath. 250 availeth nothing in contracts of Matrimony. 256
Religion of an oath alwayes held most sacred. 7
Regulus his oath. 123
Rights of Rulers over their subjects perpetual. 246
Rights fitting to be in Divine worship. 180
Rites of the Old Testament all alike lawfull or unlawful. 181
Romans oath. 170
S.
Sense of an oath how to be taken. 190
Silences sworn to Theeves. 144
Simplicity becometh an oath. 37. to which two kindes of simulation are repugnant. 39
Simulation is against the third Commandement. 47
Single and double truth. 228
Sins against the Conscience are grievous. 83
Solemne rites of oathes. 178
Solemnity of the act aggravates the sin of an oath. 183
Some things require a milder interpretation. 51
Some legall rites of society appertain even to theeves. 140
Solution of the bond of an oath what it is 229. proper to a promissory oath. 227
Solomons oath to Bathsheba. 96
Speech of ambiguous and indefinite sense, before it be distinguished, is no proposition. 212
Spontaneous oathes forbidden unlesse it be upon necessary and weighty occasions. 131. 307
Summary of what is contained in the book. 3
Superfluous things not to be put in definitions. 10
T.
Tacite antecedent consent. 118. subsequent. 119
Things cannot by their mixture produce a new species, without some reall immutation. 24
Things unlawful ex accidente. 82
Two swearing mutually. 125
Twofold obligation may arise out of an oath. 143
U.
Verball forms of oathes. 163
Verball equivocation in an oath. 192
Unlawfull things oblige not. 53. 61
Unlawful things several wayes. 76
Unlawfull things secundario. 78
Unlawfull oathes to be refused, even to danger of life. 121
Unlawfull to promise any thing to an evill intent. 218
Undue exaction of an oath is a grievous sin. 267
Vows made to God, and oathes to men are the strongest of all obligations. 29
Use of oathes lawfull. 257. in common discourse unlawfull. 259
Use of promissory oathes in justice. 266
W.
What ought not to be performed, ought not to be sworn. 63
What truth is required in a promissory oath. 227
What is not of faith is sin. 269
What are not fit matters for oaths, 12. what are. ibid.
Who swears by the creature, doth it some way inrelatio… God. 9
Whosoever is obliged, is obliged to another. 58
Why an oath called Sacrament. 7
Will cannot be forced. 142
Words are interpreters of things conceived in the minde. 150
FINIS.
End of the text · Robert Sanderson, The Obligation of Promissory Oaths (1655)