^{16 Ref} For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

^{17 Ref} Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

^{18 Ref} That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: