Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	commit_v	fornication_n	1,452	5	12.1572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39572	One antidote more, against that provoking sin of swearing, by reason of which this land now mourneth given forth from under the burden of the oppressed seed of God, by way of reply both to Henry Den's epistle about the lawfulness, antiquity, and universality of an oath, and his answers to the Quakers objections against it, recommended (by him) to all the prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint, rather then the violation of their consciences : and also to Jeremiah Ives his printed plea for swearing, entitituled, The great case of conscience opened, &c. about the lawfulness or unlawfulness of swearing, which said reply to these two opposers of the truth, as it is in Jesus, is recommended not onely to all the prisons in this city and nation, and to all such real Christians, as chuse restraint rather then the violation of their consciences, but also, to all such nominal Christians out of prison, as, rather then restrain, chuse to purchase their earthly liberties by swearing, to the violation of the command of Christ, who saith, Mat. 5.33, swaer not at all. Jam. 5.12, above all things my brethren swear not / by Samuel Fisher ...	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1054; ESTC R5750	69,157	84

stood about him in these general terms ye shall all perish this was not without an exception of such as should repent but then that exception was not without an expression viz. Except ye repent he said oft to all his hearers Ye cannot enter into the kingdom of God that was not without exceptions nor those exceptions without expressions viz. Except ye be converted and become as little children and Matth. 5. Except your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharises many of whom yet were blameless as to that righteousness of the Letter of the Law Yea in the Verses immediately before this universal prohibition Swear not at all Matth. 5. 30 31. Christ saies 'T was said of old if any will put away his Wife let him give her a Bill of Divorce but I say whosoever shall put away his Wife causeth her to commit Adultery this general term admits of an exception but then that exception is thus exprest viz. Saving for the cause of Fornication i. e. Except she play the Harlot But now as to this general term and universal prohibition Swear not at all it cannot be taken with restriction or as admitting of any exception because there is not onely no expression made anywhere after it of any such exception but a fuller amplification of it by such particulars as are more particularly exclusive of all kinds of Oaths and of all Oaths of any kind thus viz. Nor by Heaven nor Earth c. nor any other Oath And also by the Apostle Iames 5. 12. a reinforcement and reduplication of the said universal prohibition Whereas if Christ had intended any exception here he might as easily have exprest it and would as assuredly as he did immediately above in the case of Divorce by Except in the case of Fornication and so have said Swear not at all except it be solemne and sacred Oaths in Courts when yee are called to swear before a Magistrate upon a Book But as I said in stead of expressing any exception he adds that which more strengthens and clears beyond all exception the universality of his prohibition Thus we see in how mean a manner J. I. hath managed this matter he hath undertaken of informing those who are tender conscientious and dis-satisfied in that great Case of Conscience concerning Swearing and those two difficult Texts as he calls them truly enough in reference to himself on whom they sit too hard for him to wind himself from under the condemnation of Matth. 5. Iames 5. Which instead of opening he hath by his silly shuffles and blind blurres about them which yet have a golden gloss in the eyes of such as rather then imprisonment chuse to purchase their Liberty by Swearing what in him lies rather shut many men out from seeing into the true mind and meaning of the Spirit in them So running himself upon both those two Rocks he pretends to carry people from suffering rack upon viz. Ignorance and Scandal which he in the same ignorance in which he wrote all the rest likens to Scylla and Caribdis whcih are not two Rocks but the one a Rock the other a Gulf 1 Ignorance in as blindly defending that sin of Swearing which in the blindness of his mind he had before fell into 2. Scandal in offending and stumbling the tender Consciences of many an honest man by his both taking and talking for the same And howbeit he hopes he hath the price he runs for and so in words wishes that God may have the glory yet in deed and truth God's Name hath dishonor and his Truth shame by his dawby doings And if he have the price he runs for as he hath not if it be no more then the proving of Oaths now lawful for he fails in that but yet hath for a time at least if it be the saving his Estate as some not ungroundly suspect it is yet what will that profit him had he not onely sav'd his own but gain'd the whole world to boot by it seeing thereby he hath lost himself unless he yet repent and recant his rashness in so running in the sight of God and good men And now a word or two more with H. D. as to his doings in denying the true mind of Christ which we defend from Mat. 5. 33 Iam. 5. 12. From whence when we argue though 't were lawful in former times to swear yet it 's unlawful to us now having received here a countermand from the Lord Jesus Christ H. D. answers as follows H. D. Have patience I entreat you while I take liberty to examine your grounds and to weigh them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary Rep. Whoever is out of the Light of God which is in himself wherein God dwells as H. D. yet is or else he would justifie both it and the children of it more then he seems to do in his two last pages where he Quips at the Quaker and his Light within him as confuted in the case of Swearing by the consent and common custom of the Nations in the fall whose customs the Scripture sayes are vain Ier. 15. as if wha●… the Nations say and do in their state of alienation from the Light were more consonant to the Light then what they say or do who are come to it and continue in it He is out of the Sanctuary hath none but the uneven Ballance of his own Brain to weigh what 's truth withall and condemns the Generation of the Iust and is himself by such as abide in the Sanctuary with the Lord weighed in the Ballance of it and found too light And so is H. D. in his driblings about the point in hand Howbeit we shall have so much patience as to weigh his Exceptions against our Translations of the Texts aforesaid And first to our Saviours own Prohibition Swear not at all That which I bring in answer to this quoth he is an exception against the Translation the Greek word At all is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifieth wholly or altogether rather then at all so that in the proper speech it should be read Swear not wholly or altogether let not your whole communication be interwoven with Oaths Rep. H. Den peradventure may seem very bold indeed to some as he sayes p. 3. about his rare rendition of that other place Gen. 4. 26. in taking on him to translate this against the common course and consent of Nations and their Commentators so selfishly and singularly as he do's to his own turn also though he seems as bold to my self as any yet is he in what he do's not very much more bold then welcom to me for though I will not allow every one to read it so for it 's rather to be read at all then altogether yet I can afford him without prejudice to the truth we plead to wrest and scrue it so far as he does bedsies it self sith swear not nor is nor can be denied to be a Prohibition of Swearing