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| Chapter IX. How it is often better to break one's engagements than to fulfil them.
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Chapter IX.
How it is often better to break one’s engagements
than to fulfil them.
And both these points are
very clearly shown by the cases of S. Peter the Apostle and Herod. For
the former, because he departed from his expressed determination which
he had as it were confirmed with an oath saying “Thou shalt never
wash my feet,”2016
gained an immortal
partnership with Christ, whereas he would certainly have been cut off
from the grace of this blessedness, if he had clung obstinately to his
word. But the latter, by clinging to the pledge of his ill-considered
oath, became the bloody murderer of the Lord’s forerunner, and
through the vain fear of perjury plunged himself into condemnation and
the punishment of everlasting death. In everything then we must
consider the end, and must according to it direct our course and aim,
and if when some wiser counsel supervenes, we see it diverging to the
worse part, it is better to discard the unsuitable arrangement, and to
come to a better mind rather than to cling obstinately to our
engagements and so become involved in worse sins.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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