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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02626	The plain mans path-way to heaven wherein every man may clearly see whether he shall be saved or damned. / Set forth dialogue-wise for the better understanding of the simple, by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1052B; ESTC R174600	204,325	502

holy things neither is there any true feare of God before your eyes Antil I tell you plainly we must tend our businesse we may goe beg else we cannot live by the Scriptures If wee follow Sermons we shall never thrive What do you thinke every man is bound to reade the Scriptures Have we not our five wits Doe wee not know what we have to doe you would make fooles of us belike But we are neither drunke nor mad Theol. That every man of what condition soever is bound in conscience to heare and read the word of God hath been shewed and proved in the beginning of our conference but as for your five wits they will not serve your turne in these matters though you had fifteene wits For all the wit reason and understanding of naturall men in Gods matters is but blindnesse and meere foolishnesse The Apostle saith 1 Cor. 3.15 Rom. 8.7 That the wisedome of the most wise in this world is not onely foolishnesse with God but indeed very enmity against God And againe he saith 1 Cor. 2 14. That the naturall man with all his five wits understandeth not the things of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned Most prudently to this point speaketh Elihu saying Job 32.2 There is a spirit in man but the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding Antil I understand not these Scriptures which you do alledge they do not sinke into my head Theol. I thinke so indeed for the holy Ghost saith Prov. 24.7 Wisedome is too high for a foole Antil What do you call me foole I am no more foole then your selfe Theol. I call you not fool but I tell you what the Scripture saith which calleth all men though otherwise never so wise politick and learned very fooles till they be truly enlightened and inwardly sanctified by the Spirit of God as appeareth Tit. 3.3 where the Apostle affirmeth that both Titus and himselfe before they received the illuminating Spirit of Gods grace were very fooles without wit and without all sense in Gods matters Phil. I pray you good Mr. Theologus let him alone for hee will never have done cavilling I see hee is a notable caviller Let us therefore proceed to speake of the fift signe of condemnation which is swearing Theol. It may well indeed be called a signe of condemnation For I think it more than a signe it is indeed an evident demonstration of a Reprobate For I never knew any man truely fearing God in his heart that was an usuall and a common swearer Phil. I am flat of your mind for that For it cannot bee that the true feare of God and ordinary swearing should dwell together in one man sith swearing is a thing forbidden by flat statute And God addeth a sore threat to his Law That hee will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine but will most sharply and severely punish that man Theol. You say true And God saith moreover that if wee do not feare and dread his glorious and fearfull Name JEHOVAH Deut. 18.53 he will make our plagues wonderfull He saith also by his Prophet M●lachy M● 35. that hee will bee as a swift witnesse against swearers The Prophet Zachary saith Zach. 5.24 that the flying booke of Gods curse and vengeance shall enter into the house of th● swearer and he shall be cut off Therefore let all swearers take heed and look to themselves in time for we see there is a rod in pisse laid up in stor for them Phil. These threatnings being s● great and grievous and that from th● God of heaven himselfe a man woul● think should cause mens hearts to quake and tremble and make them affraid to nap out such oathes as they do if they were not altogether hardned past feeling and past grace Theol. True indeed But yet wee see by lamentable experience how men are given over both to sweare and forsweare For at this day there is no sinne more common amongst us than swearing for many there bee which cannot speak ten words but one shall bee an oath And numbers have got such a wicked custome of swearing that they can by no meanes leave it no more than a Black-moore can change his skinne or a Leopard his spots For it is made naturall unto them through custome and they have got the habit of it I do verily think if it were high treason to sweare yet some could not leave swearing And sure I am as light as we make of it that it is high treason against the Crowne of heaven yea it is a sinne immediatly against God even against his owne person and therefore he hath forbidden it in the first Table of his law Phil. Questionlesse this vice of swearing is of all other sinnes most rife in this Land For you shall have little boyes and children in the streetes rappe out oathes in most fearfull manner It would make a mans heart quake to heare them Wee may think they have sucked them out of there mothers breasts but sure wee are they have learned them from the evill example of their parents And now adayes wee cannot almost talk with a man but in ordinary speech he will belch out one oath or another Theol. I will tell you a strange thing and with great grief I speak it I do verily thinke there are sworn in this Land an hundred thousand oathes every day in the yeere Phil. No doubt Sir you are within compasse For now almost so many men so many oathes excepting some few in comparison Nay I know divers of mine owne experience which if they may be kept in talke will sweare every day in the yeare an hundred oathes for their parts Theol. O what a lamentable thing is it wee may well take up the old complaint of the Prophet Jeremy who saith Jer. 23.20 that in his time The land did mourne because of oathes And wee may well wonder that the Land sinketh not because of oaths For if God were not a God of infinite patience how could he endure his most sacred and glorious Name to bee so many thousand times blasphemed in one day that by such miserable wretches as we be Phil. Wee may indeed admire and wonder at the patience and long-suffering of God that he spareth us so long giveth us so large a time of repentance But sure it is that the Prophet saith That howsoever the Lord is slow to anger yet hee is great in power Nah. 1.3 and will not surely cleare the wicked Though he may winke at their monstrous oathes for a time yet hee forgetteth them never a whit but scoreth them up and registreth them in his book of accounts so as they stand in record against them And when the great day of reckoning shall come hee will fet them all in order before them and lay them to their charge Let not the wicked swearers and blasphemers therefore thinke that they shall alwaies scape scot-free because