Kātabaptistai kataptüstoi The dippers dipt, or, The anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over head and eares, at a disputation in Southwark : together with a large and full discourse of their 1. Original. 2. Severall sorts. 3. Peculiar errours. 4. High attempts against the state. 5. Capitall punishments, with an application to these times / by Daniel Featley ...

ARGUMENT II.

What the Saints of God are recorded to have done, and they are no where reproved for the doing thereof, in holy Scri∣pture, we may doe; for all those things were written for our example, 1. Cor. 10. 6. But the Saints of God are re∣corded in holy Scripture, to have exacted, and taken oaths imposed: for Abraham, Gen. 24. 23. maketh his servant sweare by the Lord God of heaven, that he should not take a wife to his sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites: Da∣vid being urged by Saul, sware, 1. Sam. 24. 21. 22. that he would not cut off Sauls seed after him. Ezra made the

chiefe Priests, and all Israel, to sweare that they would put away their strange wives, according to the commandement of God, Ezrah 10. 5. Nehemiah 5. 12. called the Priests and tooke an oath of them, that they should doe according to their promise, that they should restore unto their brethren their lands, their vin••-yards, their olive-yards, their hou∣ses, and also the hundred part of their monie,* 1.1 and of the corn, wine, and oile; they exacted of them.

Ergo, Christians may lawfully both impose and take oathes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Harm. confes. sec. 19. nempe Helvetica. c. 30. Damnamus A∣nab aptistas, qui negant Magi∣strat ui jura∣menta prestan∣da esse. Augusta. •• con∣fes. art. 16. Christianis li∣cet exercere judicia lege contrahere, tenere proprium jusjurandum postulantibus; Magistratibus dare. Etinfra, Damnant Ana∣baptistas, qui interdicunt haec civilio of∣ficia Christia∣nis.