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A39312	Truth prevailing and detecting error, or, An answer to a book mis-called, A friendly conference between a minister and a parishioner of his, inclining to Quakerism, &c. by Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1676 (1676)	Wing E630; ESTC R15648	157,165	374

that Vsage which they confess was then lawful Answ. He mistakes the Case they are not brought in speaking against that which was then lawful but against that which was then unlawful namely the wrong Use and Abuse of Oaths who that hath at all converst with Books is ignorant that it is usual at the Foot of a Title page to insert some Sentences out of Holy Scripture if the Subject of the Book be Religion out of prophane Authors if the Discourse be of another Nature ● somwhat relating or alluding to the matter treated of The Subject R. H. was treating of was this that all manner of swearing being forbidden by Christ all Oaths are now unlawful and therefore the Use of any Oaths must needs provoke the Displeasure of God against that Nation where they are used This being the Subject of his Book he did very a●tly allude to those Words of the Prophet Hosea Because of Oaths the Land mourns The Land mourned then because of Oaths Why because those Oaths then were Vnlawful The Land mourns now because of Oat●s why because all Oaths are now unlawful The like is to be said of the Words of Zachary and this is further to be noted that in R. H.'s Book it is thus And as saith the Prophet Every one that sweareth shall be cut off but this Parenthesis as saith the Prophet the Priest leaves out which was not fairly done of him for it shews the Intention of R. H. to be only to allude to the words of the Prophet as if he had said as the Prophet saith in another Case so say I in this he said every one that swears falsly shall be cut off because it was unlawful to swear falsly then I say every one that swears at all shall be cut off because it is unlawful to swear at all now it was therefore ignorantly at least if not maliciously done of the Priest to infinuate that R.H. brought these Scriptures to prove that all Oaths were as unlawful then as now for himself confesseth that R. H. doth yield that some Oaths were lawful then Besides what Reason had he to say of those Scriptures These are his Proofs what doth he mean they were Proofs of He himself in his own Book hath set at the Foot of his Title-page this Scripture 2 Thes. 2.11 For this cause God shall send them strong Delusion that they should believe a Lye Did he intend this for a Proof of what I would know Is it to prove his Book a Conference between a Minister and a Parishioner of his Is it to prove his Parishioner was inclining to Quakerism Is it to prove that the absurd Opinions of that Sect are detected and exposed to a just Censure This is the sume of his Title or is it to prove that they who credit what he hath ●herein written against the Principles of the People called Quakers are indeed under strong Delusion and do believe a Lye But letting his pass let us now hear what the Priest ●an say in defence of Swearing That our Saviour Christ when he said ●ear not at all c. Mat 5. did not forbid ●ll manner of Oaths he takes upon him to prove and saith he will do it in this order First By proving an Oath an Act of natural Religion towards God Secondly An Act of necessary Iustice and Charity towards men Thirdly That it is therefore a Part of that Moral and Eternal Law which our Saviour professeth he came not to destroy but to fulfil Fourthly That we find it practised in the new Testament page 5.6 His first Proposition viz. That an Oath is an Act of natural Religion towards God I deny He offers to prove it by Reason and Consent of Nations By Reason thus That whereby we glorifie God and adore his Attributes is an Act of Religion but by an Oath rightly taken we glorifie God and adore his Attributes therefore such an Oath is an Act of Religion Answ. The first Part of this Argument doth not reach the Proposition he undertook to prove namely That an Oath is an Act of natural Religion for in his Argument he drops the Word Natural and makes no mention of it neither doth he in the Conclusion of his Argument infer that an Oath is an Act of Natural Religion but barely thu● Therefore such an Oath is an Act of Religion Now a thing may be an Act of Religion and yet not an Act of Natural Religion as he calls it that i● it may be an Act of Religion by Precept or Institution yet not an Act of Religion barely of it ●elf or simply from the Nature of the thing● th●t may be an Act of Religion being commanded which was not an Act of Religion before it was command●d nor will be an Act of Re●igion after that Command which made it so is repealed T●us●●s it in the Ca●e of Circumcision it was an Act of Religion yet not an Act of Natural Religion It was no ●ct o● Religion before it was commanded It was an Act of Religion after it was commanded it is no Act of Religion since that Command which made it so is repealed Here then he hath missed his A●m and that abundantly short of the Mark And it is a very material Consideration for for his main Drift in asserting an Oath to be an Act of Natural Religion seems to be that he might wholely free it from Dependence upon Precept and establish it as a Pa●t of the Moral and Eternal Law which in his third Proposition he ushers in with a Therefore that it being an Act of Natural Religion c. It is therefore a Part of the Moral and Eternal Law c. But his Therefore being built upon a false Foundation must needs therefore fall to the Ground And as in the first Part of his Argument there is a D●f●ct so in the second there is a Redu●da●cy which makes it stark naught for therein he Assumes thus But by an Oath rightly taken we glorifie God c. The Fa●lacy lies in those Words rightly taken b● which he would take for granted that an Oath may be rightly taken this is meer begging of th● Qu●stion for that is the main thing in Controversie if we c●uld grant that an Oath may be rightly taken we should not refu●e to take it our selves but we ●ay no Oath can be rightly taken because all Oaths are by Christ forbidden The Premisses being both faulty his Conclusion to be sure cannot be good theref●●e what he builds thereupon deserves the less Regard He enumerates many Attributes of God which he saith are acknowledged by an Oath to which no other Answer need be given then that the divine Attributes are acknowledged by speaking the Truth without an Oath and God thereby more glorified in having re●eemed a ●eople from ●e●fidiousness Treachery and Falshood and brought them to that State of integrity and Uprightness of Heart that ha●ing put away ●ll Lying which was t●e Occasion of Swearing they can now sp●●k every

pag. 119. is not yet transformed into the Meckness and Innocency of a Lamb. But letting these things pass I shall conclude with that Saying in Cornelius Tacitus Didicit ill● maledicere et ego contemnere i. e. He hath learned to speak Evil and I to disregard it T. E. THE END Ezek. 34.2 3. Deut. 30.14 Rom. 10.8 Ier. 23.29 Vers. 28. 2 Pet. 4.11 pag. 98. Mat. 28.19 Chap. 24.49 1 Cor. 9.17 Ephes. 4.8 12. pag. 5. 2 Cor. 4.2 C●ap 5.11 Acts 2.37 Vers. 41. 1 Iohn 5.4 Ephes. 6.16 pag. 5. Luke 8.15 Psalm 37. ●1 Psal. 119.11 Mat. 12.35 1 Cor. 2.4 5. pag. 11. Mat 7.16.20 ver 21 22 23. page 14. Minister a Servant 1 Cor. 5.11 L 3. c. 26. Prae●●p●a monent Exempla movent viv●tur Exemplis 1 Tim. 4.12 Titus 2.7 1 Pet. 5.2 3. 2 Tim. 3.5 Ephes. 5.11 pag. 16. See Howel 's Epist. to Cotgrave his Dictionary See his Title Page page 3. Iam. 2.1 2 3.4 Acts 8.1 chap. 11.19 Mat. 19.8 Hebr. 9.10 2 Cor. 5.17 Rom. 2.28 29. Iohn 4.21 22 23. Isa. 2 4. Mic. 4 3. 2 Corin 10.4 1 Pet. ● 3 4. Iohn 5.44 Rom. 2.29 Luke 14.1 3. ver 7. Moses Aaron l. 1. c. 10. Iohn 5.44 Mat. 23.8 Luke 22.24 25 26 Iob 32.21 22. Acts 1.1 Prov. 10.19 Prov. 28.13 1 Iohn 1.9 Ephes. 5.8 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Mat. 5.48 1 Pet. 1.16 Gen. 6.9 Iob 1.1 Chap. 1. Vers. 8. Vers. 10. Vers. 11. Vers. 12 Vers. 15. Vers. 17. Vers. 16. Vers. 19 Vers. 21. Vers. 22. Chap. 2. Vers. 3. Vers. 4. Vers. 5. Vers. 6. Vers. 7. Vers. 9. Vers. 10. The Word FULLY he ought not to thrust in for it alters both the text and the case as relating to the degree of Perfection not the kind which is the Subject we are upon Rom. 3.23 Job 10.7 chap. 27.5 6 1 Iohn 1.7 Vers. 9. 1 Iohn 2.12 21. Iohn 8.32 1 Iohn 2.14 Vers. 28. Chap. 3.6 Chap. 2.6 Chap. 5.18 Chap. 2.1 Chap. 3.6 1 Iohn 5.4 2 Thess. 1.11 Iohn 7.39 Iohn 15.26 Chap. 16.13 Rom. 8.26 Mat. 4.1 1 Iohn 2.13 1 Tim 6.12 James 4.7 Rom 16.20 Luke 12.39 Mark 13 27. Mat. 26.41 Mark 5.25 Iohn 7.23 1 John 5.18 Numb 13. Ez●k 36.26 Mat. 5.8 Luke 8.15 page 42. John 5.4 James 1.27 John 5.18 Col. 1.27 Ephes. 6.11 to 17. John 8.21 24. Luke 11.21.22 1 Iohn 44. 1 Iohn 16.33 1 Cor. 12.9 Mark 3.27 2 Cor. 12.7.9 Phil. 2.13 Isaiah 26.12 Mat. 1.21 Mat 3.12 Heb. 7.25 Rom. 6.6 ver 7. verse 2. verse 18. Galat. 5.24 1 Pet. 4. Rom. 8.1 Ex. 28.7 1 John 1.7 2 Cor. 7.1 2 Thess. 5.23 Numbers 32.9 Chap. 13.31 Mar. 23. Lev. 18.5 Galat. 3.10 Ezek. 20.21 Rom. 10.5 Gal. 3.12 Ex. 24.3 Ier. 31.31 32. Hebr. 8. Galat. 4. Vers. 22 Vers. 23. Vers. 24. The Word natural hath divers Acceptations for there is the pure uncorrupte● Nature wherein man was at first made There is the corrupt degenerate Nature of man in the ●●ll in which Sense natural is in Scripture opposed to spiritual as where the Apostle saith The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him 1 C●r 2.14 And there is the divine Nature of which the Saints are mad Partakers as Peter witnesseth 2 Pet. 1.4 Ephes. 4.25 Bp. Gaude● of Oaths page 42. Stobaeus Ser. 28. Stob. Serm. 25. Bp. Gauden of Oa●hs page 42. ●bid 〈◊〉 ●●id ibid. idem page 36. Q. Curt. l. 7. Rom. 2. Vers. 14. See Acts 17.22 23. Rom. 1.21 page 23. * Frustra fit perplura quod fieri potest per panciora Of Christian simplicity fol. 228. Psa. 116.11 1 Cor. 5.7 8. Discourse con pub Oaths pag. 17. Hom. 12. in Mat. 5. Hom. 9 in Act. Apost cap. 3. lib. 1. Epist. 155. Comment in Iac. 5. Qui non r●●●rentur 〈◊〉 fal●unt D●os sayth 〈◊〉 ad Alexand. in Q. Curt. lib. 72. Q●i 〈…〉 Virop 〈◊〉 insarit Antipho 〈…〉 Serm. ●5 Nullum jusjurandum 〈◊〉 est sari et imp●st●●i Sop●oc in Stob. 〈◊〉 26. Discourse concerning pub Oaths pag. 41. page 22 2 Cor. 10.3 1 Cor. 3.3 Heb. 9.10 Hebr. 8.3 Hebr. 9.3 Iohn 8.35 Iohn 1.17 Prov. 29.25 Chap. 16.6 Isaiah 32 17. Exod. 20.29 Discourse of pub O. p. 36. Rom. 1.16 1 Cor. 5.7 8. 1 〈◊〉 2.1 Zeph. 3.8 ver 13. Ephes. 4. John 1.17 Isa. 45.23 Rom. 14. Gen. 17. chap. 21. Levit. 12.3 Rom. 9.3 4. Hebr. 7.19 Hebr. 6.13 Gen. 22.16 Ier. 22.5 Acts 22.5 * So Bp. Gauden makes the lawful Cal of Authority one of the due Circumstances which are necessary in a lawful Oath p. 45. About 300. l. Isa. 57.20 Rev. 14.3 Phil. 3.30 Levit. 16.12 Rev. 8.3 Iames 3.15 Discour of pub Oaths pag. 20. Mat. 6. Discourse of publick Oaths p. 27. 2 Cor. 9.3 Col. 1.18 Lev. 19.12 Deut. 6.13 Eusebius l. 4. c. 15. L. 6 c. 4. This in our English Bibles is the 15. Psalm B and A denote the Persons speaking Of Christian-simplicity fol. 228. Discourse of publick Oaths p. 36. 23. pag. 41. Val. Max. l. 2. c. 10. pag. 41. Acts 2.14 1 Iohn 5.20 Luke 24.45 Coloss. 1.9 Ecles 1.18 Prov. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.21 Iames 3. ●5 ver 17. 1 Cor. 2.14 1 Cor. 1.19 Job 32.8 Acts 4.13 Mat. 22.40 Prov. 14.1 Isa. 55.2 Luke 10.21 1 Cor. 14.27 Iohn 14.16 and ver 26. chap. 16.13 Ephes. 1.17 John 17.20 John 7.38 ver 39. ver 37. 1 John 2.20 ver 27. Iohn 14.18 v. 16.17 chap. 15.26 chap. 16.14 chap. 14.26 chap. 16.13 Rom. 8.9 1 Corin. 12.29.30 2 Cor. 4.4 ver 6. Gal. 1.16 Eph. 3.3.7 2 Pet. 1 21. Isa. 29.11 Rev. 5. chap. 3.7 Mat. 11.27 1 Cor. 2.11 Rev. 13. ● 4 Chap. 17.2 Chap. 18.3 Ephes. 3.10 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Rev. 10 4. Chap. 14.6 Jude 9. 1 Thessal 4.8 2 Tim. 3.16 John 14.16 17. Mat. 2● 20 Acts 2.4 Ecles 5.2 1 Cor. 2.11 12. 2 Tim. 3.1 2 Pet. 3.3 Jam. 5.3 Iohn 14.16 Mat. 28.20 See his Works p. 319 and p. 80. See his Reply to Hardings Answer p. 393. of his Works and page 394. Martyr●log vol. 3. pag. 296. Martyrology vol. 3. pag. 573 Decad. 4. Serm. 8. Gen. 14.20 Hebr. 7.2 Vers. 4. Deut. 14.25 26. Luk 10.6 7 8 Mat. 10.10 * Aliquam portionem terrarum haereditariam ●re the words both in Ingulfe Malmesbury * Aliquam portionem terrae m●a decimam Scil. partem terrae meae are th● words in M●tthew of We●●minster Decimam Hydam terrae totius 〈◊〉 Saxiae are the words in Jornalensis Fascic Temp. in Zach. Pap. Burdegal Chronog in eundem See Fascic Temporum Platina Burdegalensis Platina in Vita ejus Platina in vita ejus Platina in vita ejus Burdegal Fascicul Tempor Lib. 3. c. 11. 13. Lib. 3. c. 2. Lib. 5. cap. 4. Acts 16.3 18.18 21 2● * Remissione animarum peccatorum nostrorum are the Words of the Charter in I●gulf as Spelman gives them is his British Councils Anno Christi 855. * Error minimus in principio fit major in medio maximus in fine * C●ssante Ratione legis c●ssat lex Asinus asino sus sui pulcher