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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	appointment_n	son_n	14	3	6.2974	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23601	The swearer's doom; or, A discourse setting forth the great sinfulness and danger of rash and vain swearing. By John Rost M.A. rector of Offwell and Gittisham in Devon	Rost, John, d. 1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing R1987A; ESTC R203434	36,689	74

distinguish who did or who did not injure or offend them but take every one for their Foe It s said Isay 57.20 That the wicked are like to the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt T is the violence and fury of the Wind that disturbs the Sea and makes it unquiet but the mire and dirt it throws up is upon the shore that is not concerned Thus what ever it be that disturbs the Swearer and puts him into a Passion he vomits up all the filthiness of his heart and casts it upon God! Like the Assyrian King who being offended and inrag'd against Israel vents his malice and spleen and his Blasphemous Reproaches against his Maker and in his rage he abuses him most that set him up and who gave him all the power that he had Isa 37.23 If the Swearer in his passion doth injure or hurt the person that provoked him it might look like something of an excuse But if he were never so Justly Provoked and hath never so much cause to be angry is this a sufficient Reason or indeed a tolerable excuse for his abusing the name and honnour of God I said in my haste says David all men are lyars Psa 116.11 when Saul persecuted him and his own People spake of stoning him he was ready to conclude there was no trust in man and yet even then when the falseness and treachery of men had put him into the greatest passion he kept up an awful reverence of God he durst not let his Tongue loose against him no for says he v. 12. what reward shall I give unto the Lord c Men may unworthily abuse us affront and injure us and move us to great impatience but what must we then curse and swear as if God were the person that provoked us and yet this is the Swearer's case who makes his passion and anger an excuse for his sin which is and must needs be a very foolish pretence unless God were the person that had wrongfully and unjustly injured and provoked him Certainly anger and passion can be no excuse for Swearing unless it be God that gives the provocation no more than 't is for a man's revenging himself on his Friend because he is injured or affronted by his Enemy as I have already shown It was a rash and wicked speech of Jehoram the Son of Ahab when Samaria was straitly besieged by the Syrians and the Famine was so sore that the Women slew their own Children to feed on 2 Kings 6.31 God do so to me and more also if the head of Elisha the Son of Shaphat shall stand upon him to day why what hurt had Elisha done him had he call'd in the Syrians or caused the Famine no it was his own Idolatry and wickedness that brought those Judgments upon him and yet he swore he would revenge himself on the Prophet But he was a true Son of Ahab and Jezebel for thus Ahab reproached Elijah as his Enemy who was indeed his best Friend Jezebel swore she would take off his head because he had slain the Prophets of Baal when he was only an Instrument in God's hand and only said and did what he was commanded which they might have known and understood if they would and probably they did but God was too high and out of the reach of their malice and spight and therefore they would wreck their revenge upon his Prophet When Corah and his Brethren the Sons of Levi being full of spite and envy for that Aaron and his Sons engrossed the Priest's Office and made them their Underlings who thought themselves as worthy of the Priesthood as they Moses thus reasons the case with them Numb 16.9 Seemeth it a small thing unto you that the Lord God of Israel hath separated you from the Congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto them and he hath brought thee near unto him and all thy Brethren the Sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the Priesthood also For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord and what is Aaron that ye murmure against him But this they would not understand that it was by God's appointment that Aaron and his Sons had the Priesthood and that he had given them the Levites to be their under-Officers and Assistants but they pretended that 't was Aaron's own pride and ambition that caused him to lift up himself above the People of the Lord who were as holy as he They would not own that their Quarrel was against God but against Aaron But now Swearers are more bold and impudent in their Sin than these who ever affronts injures or abuseth them yea whoever doth or speaks any thing that is displeasing to them they no sooner fall into a passion but God is made the Object of their fury as if he were the person that injured them But be not deceived God is not mocked let not man make anger or provocation an excuse for Swearing but let him take heed lest he provoke God to Swear too i. e. to Swear in his Wrath as he once did concerning the Israelites in the day of their provocation that they should never enter into his rest The other Excuses that Swearers have for their Sin are so silly and idle so vain and foolish that they are not worth mentioning yea they are such as they themselves do not openly alleadge but rather leave others to guess at them and they are the commonness and the gentility of the Sins As to the first 't is true that such Sins as are most common and usual are little taken notice of and men generally account them the smaller for that they are so frequent Such Sins as are rarely heard of are much taken notice of and they beget wonder and Astonishment But where they are rife they are esteemed small and inconsiderable The in of Sodomy in all Christian Nations is seldom heard of But in Sodom no one was ashamed of it and among the Turks small account is made of it The Romans were great pretenders to truth and could not endure lying But the Cretans who were always lyers and the Grecians their Neighbours if the Romans did not abuse them rather gloried in it then took shame at it In all Civiliz'd Nations a Thief is most despicable and contemptible and yet the Colchians hardly think their Children good for any thing who are not cunning and dextrous at it Busbequins Epist 3. p. 208. It 's well known that this Nation has been formerly admired and mightily commended for it's sobriety Tu non bibis Angle c. drunkenness as it was rarely seen so 't was accounted so odious and shameful that as St. Paul says 1 Thes 5.7 They that were drunk were drunk in the night 't was a sin that did not dare appear bare-faced and in the