Paragraph 23.4

Of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.⁠1

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

22.4

An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.⁠1 It cannot oblige to sin; but in anything not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, although to a man's own hurt:⁠2 nor is it to be violated, although made to heretics or infidels.⁠3