A Discourse On the Covenant With Judas Preached in Hollis Street Church No 6
A Discourse On the Covenant With Judas Preached in Hollis Street Church No 6
Pierpont John
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And this is law all over the world. If, in the streets of Rome or Naples, I hire an assassin to do his work, on credit, I am under no obligation to pay him when it is done. If I pay him in advance, he is under no obligation to do the work. No solemnity of form, no amount of consideration, can sanctify the compact, or make it binding upon the soul of either party. Indeed, so universally is this truth admitted, that it has passed into a proverb, that ' a bad promise is better broke than kept. ' I...f need were, the high authority of our Great Master might be appealed to, hi support of the position which has been taken, and which I am endeavoring to defend in this discourse. The Saviour does not indeed mention any specific instance of a vow * Blackstone's Commentaries. II. 444. 21 sinful in itself, and therefore void. But he takes notice of, and pointedly condemns a practice, at the bottom of which lay the same corrupt popular sentiment, which, even in our own day, has done so much to give a practical validity to vows and covenants, in themselves immoral.
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