Article 39. Of a Christian mans othe
As we confesse that vayne
and rashe swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christe, and James his Apostle: So we iudge that Christian religion doth not prohibite, but that a man may sweare when the Magistrate requireth, in a cause of faith and charitie, so it be done accordyng to the prophetes teaching, in iustice, iudgement, and trueth.3
The Ratification.
This Booke of Articles before rehearsed, is agayne approued, and allowed to be holden and executed within the Realme, by the ascent and consent of our Soueraigne Ladye Elizabeth, by the grace of GOD, of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande Queene, defender of the fayth, &c. Which Articles were deliberately read, and confirmed agayne by the subscription of the handes of the Archbyshop and Byshoppes of the vpper house, and by the subscription of the whole Cleargie in the neather house in their Conuocation,
in the yere of our Lorde GOD. 1571.
[A Table of the Articles.}4
1 Of fayth in the Trinitie.
2 Of Christe the sonne of GOD.
3 Of his goyng downe into hell.
4 Of his Resurrection.
5 Of the holy ghost.
6 Of the sufficiencie of the Scripture.
7 Of the olde Testament.
8 Of the three Credes.
9 Of originall sinne.
10 Of free wyll.
11 Of Iustification.
12 Of good workes.
13 Of workes before iustification.
14 Of workes of supererogation.
15 Of Christe alone without sinne.
16 Of sinne after Baptisme.
17 Of predestination and election.
18 Of obtayning saluation by Christe.
19 Of the Churche.
20 Of the aucthoritie of the Churche.
21 Of the aucthoritie of generall Counsels.
22 Of Purgatorie.
23 Of ministring in the congregation.
24 Of speaking in the congregation.
25 Of the Sacramentes.
26 Of the vnworthynesse of the Ministers.
27 Of Baptisme.
28 Of the Lordes supper.
29 Of the wicked whiche eate not the body of Christe.
30 Of both kyndes.
31 Of Christes one oblation.
32 Of the mariage of Priestes.
33 Of excommunicate persons.
34 Of traditions of the Churche.
35 Of Homilies.
36 Of consecration of Ministers.
37 Of ciuill Magistrates.
38 Of Christian mens goods.
39 Of a Christian mans othe.
40 Of the ratification.
¶ Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyard, by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Queenes Maiestie, in Anno Domini 1571.
* Cum priuilegio Regise maiestatis.
Footnotes
- 3
In the Forty-two Articles of Edward VI. there are four additional Articles—on the Resurrection of the Dead, the State of the Souls of the Departed, Millenarians, and the Eternal Damnation of the Wicked.
- 4
This heading is inserted in the later English editions after the Ratification.