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already in use is the word. 5 Affirmation.
This word might not improperly serve.
But the word asseveration is perhaps, in
some degree preferable: since it presents to
view, more than does the word affirmation,
the idea of a special degree of attention and
decision beyond what has place in ordinary and comparatively
unimportant occasions

Now as to repugnancy to scripture.
"Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain". So says the second
of the ten Commandments — "Swear not at
all". These are the words of Jesus as reported
in the Gospel — "Above all things swear
not! These are the words of St. James in
his Epistle — But for texts of scripture, when
troublesome, there are rules of interpretation:
one of them is, the rule of contraries —

Says God to Man, thou shalt
not perform any such ceremony. Says Man
to God — I do perform this ceremony, and
thou shalt punish every instance of disregard
to it. Suppose the Almighty prepared
to punish every or any instance of
disregard to this ceremony, you suppose him
employed in sanctioning disobedience to
his own express Commandments.

If to the compellers of such Oaths,
punishment, in a life to come, were at all
an object of consideration, the punishment
attached to disobedience — to commandments

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V. Device the fifth. Oaths, for the purpose
of the mendacity, necessitated. That the ceremony
of an Oath is the instrument by means of
which the licence to commit mendacity is effected;
has just bee stated. Now as to the
mode of applying the instrument to this
purpose. Nothing can be more simple. On
the occasion of any statement about to be
made, on a juridical occasion, or for an eventually
juridical purpose, is it your wish (you being
a Judge) that mendacity should not have
place, you cause the individual by whom
the statement is made, to have just before
the making of it, borne his part in this same
ceremony: on the occasion of any statement
so made, is it your wish that mendacity
should have place, you abstain from requiring
the performance of this same ceremony: and at
the same time you give to the naked statement
so made, whatever effect it suits your purpose
to give to it.

Not, that it was for this purpose
that the ceremony itself was invented; for along
with the time, the cause of it's invention is lost
in the darkness of the early ages: all that, on
this occasion, is meant is — that it is for the
purpose of organizing mendacity, and giving
to that vice every practicable increase, that the
ceremony, being found already in use, was taken
advantage of.

Properties, which we shall now

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Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
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