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do without an oath , what need have you to impose it I Whether such an oath as this may not weaken your hands ?"— -P . 281 . The motion for a Committee td prepare an oath passed by 68 to 51 . Debates followed , which in same respects would find a suitable parallel in the deliberations of the Lords on ? the repeal of the Sacramental Test , " Colonel Sydcnham . I am against all oaths , because there are snares in them ; much more , against additions to oaths : for more words , more sin *
But if you will do any thing , it must be moved by a inemb # r . "—P . 289 . " Colonel Rome . I see your oaths grow , and it seems men ' s conscience ? must grow to them . I would not have you go according to the rule of that dead carcase , the last Parliament ; who , by your own acknowledgment , did make an oath for the Council , that they" would not have taken themselves , on purpose to lay them aside ; tying us to perform such directions as the Parliament should hereafter give , which was more than a Jew or Turk would impose . "—Pp 289 , 290 .
" Mr . Grove . I shall not speak against the matter of tfee oath ; but I am against any oath at all in this ease . Your Committee had no such order . I desire you will lay it aside . Oaths are but snares ; times " are changeable , and a multiplicity of oaths draw but on to sin . It will but keep out the conscientious , and let in those that make no scruple of any oath . Haply some may be kept , both out of this place and the council , by imposing this oath . » —P . 290 .
" Colonel Sydenham offered these reasons against the oath ;—" 1 . It comes in against your order . " 2 . It has a tendency to impose an oath upon the whole nation ; and you do in effect lay an oath upon the people of England ; the collective body of England . I aid foresee this would bring it upon every individual . " 3 . It is no argument to say , because his Highness is bound , therefore we must be bound . He is a single . person , set up to act for the body ; and not intrusted for himself , but for the people .
" 4 . As to that , that oaths have been taken , there is such a vast parenthesis , a sea of blood betwixt , that it needs not be urged wliat was done for * merly . You are not bound to take that chain up , upon yourselves , upon the people , upon posterity . It is like that of the ceremonial law . A servant may go out free if he will . If he will not go out , bore his ear to the post . " 5 . It is harder to tie members of Parliament than those of the Council . That is a narrower door ; and if he cannot go in , he may stay behind ; but he cannot stay out of the nation .
" 6 . You have said you would have Parliament free ; and will you now lay a force upon you ? I had rather soldiers stood at the door , than * ny conscience to keep me out . It is worse than a file of musketeers . Whom will you keep out ? Those that are faithful to you and your good intentions . They that can tumble down nations and kingdoms , none more read y to take it ; none less ready to keep it . You will make it a strait * way for good men , and a broad-way for bad . "—« Pp . 291 , 292 .
Major-Genera I JJtsbrowe . I think this oath both just and reasonable . My urinciule is for settlement , arid I hope it is in your petition and advice provided for . If I intended , when we come again , to throw up all that we have done , and lay the legislation open again to the people , let us go with open force . It would be more ingenuous to tell his Highness we have set him up , and will pull him down again . If I would have all this , I would have us left without any tie . This is not ingenuous to bind one and let free another . " Lord Lambert . I cannot agree that this comes in by your order . I an * not for any kind of oaths . I think they prove but snares . "—P . 295 . On the 25 th January , 1657-8 , Sir Arthur Haselrigge , who had been appointed by Cromwell to sit in bis new Upper House , rejected that ap-
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470 Revtew . ' *—Burtons Diarn *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/38/
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