A Dissertation on the Nature, Obligations, and Form of a Civil Oath: In Which a Careful Inquiry Is Made Into the Proper Manner of Taking a Judicial ... Kissing the Holy Evangels (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Nature, Obligations, and Form of a Civil Oath: In Which a Careful Inquiry Is Made Into the Proper Manner of Taking a Judicial Oath; Whether by Lifting Up the Right Hand, or by Touching and Kissing the Holy Evangels

And even in the less formal oaths on record, we can trace this But particularly in the recorded examples the Hebrew and Christian worshipper; and the angels lifted up their hands and swore by the Most High and when Jeho vah did himself set the highest and holiest example, because he could swear by no greater, he did swear by himself This point, then, we deem strongly established by the man nor of the Hebrew and Christian oath, that an appeal to the Supreme Being - cuhn the only true God, was essential to the true oath and no oath of the Hebrew, or Christian, was with out this appeal to God.

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