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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

and out in Kent and elsewhere being misled by the crooked examples and mis-taught by the crude conceptious of their untaught Tea chers that it is lawful to swear in some cases do chuse rather to purchase their Liberty by Swearing then either to come into or continue in prison Yea and three or four of those who have sometime gone under the denomination of Quakers also to the great terror distraction and wounding of their spirits so that some of them have cryed out for horror of heart and have confessed they were in greater bonds then those in prison * Witness the tenor of a Letter from one of them at Windsor for a Warning to such as yet stand set down here in the Margent have rashly subiected themselves for fear to mans will against God's in that particular Now that I may prevent the impendent evil consequences necessarily following those men first or last who for fear of man shall venture to violate Christs Command against Swearing to which not only I. Tombs in his late trifling Treatise replied to already by my self briefly in the Epistle to my Book stil'd the Countrey correcting the Clergy and more fully by R. Hubberthorn but also more lately H. Den in his Epistle to all Prisons and more lately yet Ier. Ives in proof of the lawfulness of Swearing have done their best to perswade men I shall first examine the weakness of H. D's and I. ●…'s proofs for it 2. Strengthen those of ours against Swearing from those two Capital Texts Matth. 5. Iam. 5. which they two with as little strength of Reason as to little purpose labour to overturn I shall begin first with H. Den's Do-little since his Sheet came came out first a man that was wont to do better and much more being a man of more than ordinary ability when he disputed against the Priestly Darkness behind him yet here left justly of the Lord to bewray great weakness for his pushing at a people that are in the Light before him So let all the Wisdom of such as know not thy hidden ones in that in which alone thou and thine can be manifest perish from them O God and be converted into foolishness Next I shall shew the n●…rrowness and shallowness of those two sheets under which lest H. D's single one should not be enough Ier Ives having sham'd himself among the Saints by Swearing seeks more subtilly and shufflingly then su●…cessfully to shroud himself out of sight that the shame of his nakedness may not appear to all men Yet where their words and arguments are coincident I shall take notice of them so as to return answer to them both together In proof of the Lawfulness of some Swearing now Henry Den propounds two things First the Antiquity Secondly the Universality of that practice In proof of its Antiquity he propounds two Periods The first is about three hundred years after the Moon in the daies of Seth. The second about four hundred years after the Flood in the daies of Ahraham From the first of which he conjectures onely that probably it might be From the second he concludes undoubtedly that it was then in being As to the first of these two Periods I have two things to say to it whereby to discover its invalidity to evince the now lawfulness of that once confessedly lawful or at least allowed Course or Custom of Solemn Swearing First that 't is but upon a meer fallible uncertain unwarrantable conjecture at best by H. D's own confession on which he derives the now-warrantableness of solemn Swearing from so high as those daies of Seth witness his own words here under-cited out of p. 3. of his Paper viz. For the Antiquity of it although I cannot say that the practice is as old as the Moon yet I have cause to conjecture that it is not above 300 years younger Indeed what the old world did in this case the Scriptures do not speak plainly and therefore I will pass it by By which we plainly see as concerning the first P●…riod pitch'd upon by H. D. as his proof of the Antiquity of Swearing that were it an Antiquity high enough from whence to argue the lawfulness of that Ceremonious Custom yet it is but doubtfully conjectured and but probably concluded by him That it is so Antient as to be in use at all in the Old World before the Flood for he confesseth That what the Old World did in this Case the Scriptures do not speak plainly And can H. D's cloudy conjecture that probably 't is not above 300 years younger than the Moon be a cogent consequence to 20000 tender Consciences in a Case of such Concernment as this wherein they prizing their peace of Conscience with prison and confiscation before Liberty and All they have with the violation of them do lack no less evidence to their Conviction and Satisfaction then infallible and Scientifical Demonstration Secondly That if it were as certain as 't is but conceived by H. D. that That practice of Swearing by him now pleaded for was then in use and were it as undoubtedly as 't is but doubtfully derived thence yet that is not a Period so Antient as can serve to prove the now-lawfulness of any sort of Swearing since Christ who put an end to it any more then it may serve to prove the lawfulness of now sacrificing the fruits of the ground and the firstlings of the flock in that Ceremonious manner as was once and that long before that of Swearing apparently in use till Christ the substance of all Ceremonies and Sacrifices ended it by the sacrificing of himself yea no more than it may serve to prove the lawfulness of sin it self which though not de jure yet de facto was apparently practised by mankind before either Sacrificing or Swearing Which said Ceremony * of Swearing as now used and imposed with the hand laid on a Book with kissing or lifted up is now ended in Christ the Witness Covenant or Oath of God That it was used de facto before Christ had it been clearly derived from the time pretended to by H. D. cannot clearly prove that it now is in use de jure God under Moses and the Law as he suffered other things that were not so from the beginning because of the hardness of men's hearts so because of the hardness of men's hearts to believe each other while they are besides the Light and Truth in the fall in the lye in the deceit in the darkness and the strife and so under the Law suffered it so to be as it was in the case of Swearing in order to their satisfaction of each other but from the beginning before sin entered it was not so nor is it now so among the Saints and true Churches that are in God nor shall it be so in the end as men by the Light come back out of the strife and other deeds of darkness into Christ the Image of God after which man was at first