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conscience_n	bear_v	spirit_n	wound_a	1,374	5	11.0872	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71053	Examinations, or, A discovery of some dangerous positions delivered in A sermon of reformation preached in the church of the Savoy last fast day July 26 by Tho. Fuller, B.D. and since printed / by Iohn Saltmarsh ...	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing S481; ESTC R23325	13,853	26

when it is taken by some I fear for good doctrin That every man may consecrate his hand and fall upon his brother if he judge him an Idolater And that the tribe of Levi by that severe execution did expiare their slain of the Fathers Transgression in their bloody excision of the Sechemites circumcision Perhaps the comparison holds in part in their furious zeal of Simeon and Levi who under an hypocriticall pretext of Religion and Circumcision wrought the utter destruction and excision of the Shechemites Which made Jacob complain You have troubled me and made me to stink among c. Gen. 49. 5. Simon and Levi Brethren in evill O my Soul come not thou into their Counsell id est Secret and into their Assembly my honour be not united Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Woe to them that draw iniquity with Cords of Vanity and Sin as it were with Cart-ropes Isai. 5. 18 28. Chrysostome As children pulling a rotten Rope at both ends contrary-wayes at last it breakes and both fall and break their heads and legges So in a doubtfull Twisted Oath rotten and unsound when contrary parts pull severall wayes or when Conscience holds one way and worldly affection pulls another way The Cord or Oath breaks and both sides fall into a Gulf of perdition The one by provoking the Oath the other by breaking the Oath Conscience falls one way and breakes his peace World pulls and falls another way and breaks his credit The Spirit of a man would sustein his infirmities but a wounded Spirit who can bear Prov. 18. 14. Hear Saint Chrysostomes suit and request to his flock This I now ask and well never leave asking That whensoever any is about to swear Let 's take John Baptists head and with loud cries shew it and cry out against Oaths and imagine you heard that tongue yet speaking as the voice of a Cryer Hate and abhor an Oath my Murderer For what my reproof could not effect an Oath did And what a Tyrants fury could not doe th●● a necessity of Perjury effected Hee that once heard him gladly and did many things and reverenced his Sanctity now murdered him cruelly and that by vertue of an Oath for two causes First For his Oaths sake Secondly For Companies sakeed est in pursuance of his Oath he cuts off the head of a Saints worth the whole world NOw let those who are already intangled with this unhappy Covenant judge rightly of Herods Case Whether it h●●● not been much better to have violated his rash Oath and confessed his folly in making it before all that were present then so bloodily to have kept it Let them remember the Schoole Doctrine No man can be to immur'd or inclosed betwixt two sins but he may find the way out without a third If it be a deadly crime to keep such an Ooth it can be no sin to break it Wee so the Israelites found a way to evade their severe vow against the Benjamites not to give them their daughters Judg. 21. 21. and it is not laid to their charge We read of the peoples delivering Jonathan out of Sauls hand not with standing his fathers vnto put him to death 1. Sam. 14. 45. And neither the people are blamed for so doing nor Saul taxed for yeelding to the peoples What need more be said when we finde David himself repenting of his rash Oath to destroy the houshold of Nabal the Carmelite 1. Sam. 25. 34. How many Christians in the Primitive time may we read of that having once abjured their Saviour repented and turned again and were crowned with Martyrdom 1 How many of later dayes that not with standing they have once subscribed and sworn against the Protestant Doctrine yet have lamented their inconstancy and suffered death valiantly in defence of it It is a most certain Rule that in rash Oaths poenitend● promissio non persicienda praesumptio The promise ought to be repented of presumption ought not to be executed And in unjust and wicked ones such as this Covenant Injusta vincul● rumpat iustitia Unjust and unrighteous fetters let Righteousnes burst asunder FINIS Oxford Printed for William Web 1643. 1 Kings 13. 18. Bishop Montague Frans a Sancta Clara Bucer in l. ● de Regno Christi 〈◊〉 8 1. Ezra 10 8 〈◊〉 6. 60. 61. Revel. Act. 3. 36. a Nimis remedies irritantur delicta tacit. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} b Plu es amicos quam sunt arbtratur Plin lib. 2. Epist c Arist. d Arist. 5 pol. 6. 8. Reip●bla dmenta Liv lib. 2. e Non vulgare Tacit. Ann. nec proserre dicet in publicum Arnol Clapm. 1. 6. c. 19.