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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

unless it be within ten Days after the Offence committed And if any Person shall travel upon the Lord's Day and be robbed the Inhabitants of the Hundred shall not answer for the Robbery but upon notice of such Robbery to them or some of them given or Hue and Cry for the same to be made they shall make or cause to be made fresh pursuit after the said Offenders with Horsemen and Footmen according to the Statute 27 Eliz. upon pain to forfeit as much Money to the King's Majesty as might have been recovered against them by the Party robbed And no Person or Persons whatsoever upon the Lord's Day shall serve or execute any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree except in Cases of Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace but that the Service thereof shall be utterly void and the Person or Persons so serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the Suit of the Party grieved and to answer Damages to him for doing thereof as if he or they had done the same without any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree at all Having shewed what Provision the Law makes for the Observation of the Lord's Day I shall proceed in the next Chapter to give an Account what some Texts of Holy Writ command in such Case to be observed Note that by the Statute 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 22. No Shoe-maker shall put his Wares to sale upon Sundays on pain of three Shillings and four Pence and also to forfeit the full value of the Wares sold CHAP. VIII Of the several Texts or Places of Scripture relating to the due Observation and Sanctifying of the Sabbath REmember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of thy Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man Servant nor thy Maid Servant nor thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in Six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and 〈◊〉 that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Six days thou shalt do thy work and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine Ox and thine Ass may rest and the Son of thy Handmaid and the Stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel saying Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth any work therein that Soul shall be cut off from amongst the People Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to the Lord whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death Exod. 31. 13 14 15. Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in Earing-time and in Harvest thou shalt rest Exod. 34. 21. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord Levit. 19. 30. 26. 2. And while the Children of Israel were in the Wilderness they found a Man that gathered Sticks upon the Sabbath-day and they that found him gathering Sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the Congregation And they put him in Ward because it was not declared what should be done to him And the Lord said unto Moses the Man shall surely be put to death all the Congregation shall stone him with Stones and all the Congregation brought him without the Gamp and stoned him with Stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses Num. 15. 32 33 34 35 36. Keep the Sabbath-day to sanctify it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six days thou shalt labour and do all thy Work but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter nor thy Man servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thine Ox nor thine Ass nor any of thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates that thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant may rest as well as thou Deut. 5. 12 13 14. Six days shall Work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you an Holy day a Sabbath of Rest to the Lord whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death Exod. 35. 2. Blessed is the Man that doth this and the Son of Man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any Evil. Isa 56. 2. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa 58. 13 14. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy Convocation ye shall do no servile Work Num. 38. 25. Thus saith the Lord Take heed to your selves and hear no Burden on the Sabbath day nor bring it in by the Gates of Jerusalem Neither carry forth a Burden out of your Houses on the Sabbath-day neither do ye any work but hallow the Sabbath-day as I commanded your Fathers But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath-day and not to bear a Burden even entring in at the Gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Jer. 17. 21 22 and 27. Thou hast despised mine Holy things and hast profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 22. 8. Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 23. 38. And the Lord said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my Commandments and my Laws See for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two days abide ye every Man in his place let no Man go out of his place on the seventh day So the People rested on the seventh day Exod. 16. 28 29 30. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the Wilderness they walked not in my Statutes and they despised my Judgments which if a Man keep he shall even live

to look upon the Wine when it is red when it sparkles in the Cup or to rise up early in the Morning to follow drink that is strong as appears by the places of Scripture beforecited in the last preceding Chapter And we read that Pitticus the Mitelenian Philosopher and one of the seven wise men of Greece made a Law that whosoever committed a Crime when he was drunk should be punished double both for the Offence committed and also for being drunk And Solon another of the seven wise men of Greece and the famous Law-giver to the Athenians ordained that if any Prince were taken drunk he should be put to death Noah that Holy Patriarch drinking too much Wine not only discovered his own shame but also was the occasion of the cruel Curse which the Lord sent upon the Posterity of Cham which even to this day lieth hard upon them And Lot though he hated the Sin of Sodom and escaped the Punishment thereof yet being overcome with the Wine of the Mountains he committed Incest with his own Daughters and made a new Sodom of his own Family Balthasar rioting and revelling amongst his Whores had the end of his Life and Kingdom denounced against him by a bodiless Hand writing upon the Wall the Lord's Decree And whilst Holofernes besotted his sences with excess of Wine and good Chear Judith found means to cut off his Head Alexander the Great having invited many of his Favourites and Captains to a Supper propounded a Crown in reward to him that should drink most so one in the Company swallowed up four Steans of Wine being in value worth six hundred Crowns and so won the Prize but lost a greater Prize viz. his Life for he survived not three days after and one and forty of the rest that did strive with him for Conquest dyed also to bear him Company at his Death as they had done in the Frolick Alexander also himself was so addicted to the excess of drinking Wine and was oft-times so distempered therewith that sometimes he kill'd his Friends at the Table in his drunken fits whom in sobriety he loved dearest Cyrillus a Citizen of Hippon had a drunken Son who in the midst of his Drunkenness kill'd his own Mother great with Child and his Father also that endeavoured to restrain his drunken Fury and would have ravished his Sister had she not strugled sore and made her escape not without many wounds Three not far from Huntington to my own knowledg saith my Author being overcharged with Drink perished by Drowning when being not able to rule their Horses they were carried by them into the main Stream from whence they never came out again alive but left behind them visible marks of God's Justice for the Terror and Example of others Upon the Coasts of Bohemia Anno 1551. five drunken men quaffing together with horrible Blasphemies profaned the Name of God and the Picture of the Devil being painted on the Wall they caroused Healths to him to which the Devil answered immediately and the next Morning all five were found dead their Necks being broken and squeez'd to pieces as though a Wheel had gone over them Blood running out of their Mouths Nostrils and Ears to the great Astonishment of the Beholders An Alewife in Kesgrave near Ipswich who would needs force three Serving-men that had been drinking in her House and were taking their leaves to stay and drink the three Ou ts before they went that is Wit out of the Head Money out of the Purse and Ale out of the Barrel as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand was suddenly taken speechless and sick and her Tongue swoln in her Head and never recovered her Speech but di●d the third day after Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich drinking for the Rump of a Turkey and strugling in their Drink for it fell into a scalding Caldron backwards whereof one died presently and the other lingringly and painfully since my coming says Mr. Ward to Ipswich A Man coming home drunk would needs go and swim in the Mill-pond his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim perswaded him and once got him out of the Water but he going in again was drowned in the Pond In Barnwel near Cambridg a lusty young man living at the sign of the Plough with two of his Neighbours and one Woman in their Company agreed to drink up a Barrel of strong Beer and drinking up the same three of them died within four and twenty Hours and the fourth hardly escaped after great Sickness A Butcher in Haslingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness being at his Cups in the Alehouse fell a scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons and as he was drinking the Drink or something in the Cup got into his Throat and stuck so there that he could neither get it up nor down but was choaked therewith presently At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex Three young men meeting to drink strong Waters fell by degrees to half Pints and one of them fell down dead in the Room and the other two prevented by Company coming in escaped not without much Sickness At Bungy in Norfolk three coming out of an Ale-house in a dark Evening swore they thought it was not darker in Hell it self one of them fell off the Bridg into the Water and was drowned the second fell off his Horse and the third sleeping on the Ground by the River side was frozen to Death A Bailiff of Hedley being drunk upon the Lord's Day at Melford would needs get upon his Mare to ride through the Street affirming as the report goes says my Author that his Mare would carry him to the Devil and his Mare casting him off broke his neck Company drinking in an Alehouse at Harwich in the Night over against one Mr. Russels Mayor of the Town was by him once or twice desired to depart and at length coming down he took one of them making as if he would carry him to Prison who drawing his Knife fled from him and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand At Tenby in Pembrokshire a Drunkard being excessive drunk broke himself all to pieces from an high and steep Rock in a most fearful manner and yet the occasion and Circumstances of his fall so ridiculous as I says my Author think not fit to relate lest in so serious a Judgment I should move laughter to the Reader A Glasier in Chancery-lane in London fell to a common course of Drinking and being admonished by his Wife and many of his Friends to leave off his sinful Course yet he presuming much of God's Mercy continued in his sinful practise till upon a time having overcharged his Stomach with Drink he fell a vomiting broke a Vein lay two days in extream pain of Body and sorrow of Mind till in the end recovering a little Comfort he died Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their

bring forth a Child with a Head like a Dog that seeing he preserred his Dogs before the Service of God he might have one of his own getting to make much of At Kimstat a Town in France in the Year 1559 there lived a certain covetous Women that was so greedy of Gain that she would neither frequent the Church her self to hear the Word of God not suffer any of her Family to go but continually stay'd labouring and toyling about drying and pilling Flax and doing other domestick Businesses and could not be reclaimed by her Neighbours and one Sabbath day Fire seemed to run among the Flax without doing any harm the next Sabbath day it took Fire indeed but was quickly extinct all this would give her no warning but she continued obstinate in her Profaneness the third Sabbath day the Flax again taking Fire could not be quenched till it burnt her and two of her Children to death for tho they were taken out alive yet the next day they all three died and that which was most to be wondered at says the Reporter a young Infant in the Cradle was taken out of the mid'st of the Flames without any hurt thus God uses to exercise his Judgments upon the Contemners of his Commandments In the Year 1583 at London at the Bear-Garden a great number of People being gathered together on a Sabbath day to see the Sport the Lord that he might chasten them in some sort and show his dislike of the profaning the Sabbath caused the Scaffolds suddenly to break the Beholders to tumble down headlong so that eight Persons Men and Women were slain besides many others were sore hurt and bruifed to the shorthing of their Lives The like Judgment happened at a Town in Bedfordshire called Risley in the Year 1607 where the Floor of a Chamber wherein a great number were gathered together to see a Play on the Sabbath day fell down and many by the Fall thereof sore hurt and some killed In May 1629 one John Bow of Ely Coachman to one Mr. Batnum of Beenham a Fellow very vitious and exceeding in these two Evils of Profane Swearing and Drunkenness on the Sabbath day in the Sermon time drank himself drunk so that when he was to sit in the Coach-box to drive the Coach he fell from it under the Horses Feet and was trodden to death or so hurt at least that he died shortly after In November 1621 one Richard Burn Servant to Jasper Burch Gardiner of Ely accustomed to travel on the Lord's Day and making no reckoning of the Sabbath seldom or never coming to the Church on that day but went onwards to St. Ives Market and so spent the day and being drunk was at length overtaken by the just Judgment of God for going up the Stream in his Boat which he had loaden with Marketable Wares he fell into the River and was drowned Mr. Hugh Clark preaching about Oundle in Northamptonshire where the People were generally very ignorant and much addicted to the Profanation of the Lord's Day by Whitson-Ales Maurice-Dances c. which he much set himself against endeavouring to evince their and to draw them from the Evil and Danger o● the Sin denouncing God's Judgments in case of their obstinate Perseverance but they being train'd up in those Courses and hardned by custom persisted still in their Wickedness At last on a Lord's Day the Leader of the Dance a Lusty young Man in the mid'st of their Profane Pastimes fell down suddenly and died but they soon shaking off their Fear returned to their Vomit again the Lord's Day following Mr. Clark took occasion from this sad dispensation to quote that Text Jer. 17. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day c. then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof c. The People still kick'd against these Admonitions and the Eve following returned to their Sports again among whom was a Smith that was a chief Ring-leader but it pleased God the very next day two Husbandmen coming to sharpen their Plow-shares at his Shop a spark from the red hot Iron as he was beating it upon the Anvil flew into the Thatch which both the Smith and the Neighbours saw but had no power to move towards it which presently burnt down the Shop House and all the Smith had This Mr. Clark pressed upon their Consciences but nothing would prevail till at last upon a Sabbath day at Night when they were return'd to their several Homes there was heard a great noise and ratling of Chains up and down the Town which was accompanied with such a smell and stink of Fire and Brimstone that many of their guilty Consciences suggested to them that the Devil was come to fetch them away quick into Hell and now and not till now they began to think in good earnest of a Reformation Edmond Kirke Vintner executed July 11. 1684 for murthering his Wife in his Confession acknowledged himself frequently guilty of profaning the Lord's Day upon which Holy Day saith he I committed the heinous Sin of murthering my Wife Thus Sin was punished with Sin a less with a greater and the greater with the Gallows and that greater committed near the same Gallows and himself confessed that he had to his Wife asking whilst she passed by what place that was told her it was Tyburn where John Gower was lately hang'd for killing his Wife O Lord how dear to me thy Counsels are but how just and terrible thy Judgments Mr. Smythies Curate of St. Giles's Cripple-gate in the Confession and Discovery of a condemned Prisoner executed for Theft May 25 1687 saith as Mr. Burton reports that it was his earnest desire that all young Men should take care not to mispend the Lord's Day And I do not know says Mr. Smythies that ever I observed any Repentance in a condemned Malefactor who did not bitterly lament his neglect of his duty to God on that day In a Convocation of the Clergy at Perth in Scotland Anno 1188 for the better Sanctification of the Sabbath day it was ordained as Arch-Bishop Spotswood tells us that every Saturday from twelve of the Clock should be set apart for preparation thereunto and that all People at the sound of the Bell should address themselves to hear Prayers and abstain from worldly Labours till Monday Morning If nothing that is here shewed can prevail or any ways induce the presumptuous obstinate Prosaners of the Lord's Day to forsake their sinful and provoking Wickedness then let him that is young observe what Solomon says Rejoice O young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment Eccles 11. 9. And he that is old let him know that death is at his Heels ready to trip them up and gives no warning of his coming

three hours but if the Offender be under that Age and shall not forthwith pay the same sum of twelve Pence then he or she by such Warrant as aforesaid shall be whip'd by the Constable or by the Parent or Master in his presence And if such Offender shall commence any Suit at Law against any Officer or other for such distraining sale of Goods whipping or setting in the Stocks the Defendant or Defendants may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in evidence to the Jury at the Trial and if it be found against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs or they are Nonsuited then the Defendant or Defendants shall be allowed good Costs to be taxed by the Court. The Offence shall be complained of and proved as abovesaid within twenty days after the Offence committed And it is Enacted That this Act shall be read in every Parish-Church by the Minister thereof upon the Sunday after Evening-Prayer twice in the Year There being no Penalty inflicted upon Ministers by this Statute of the 21 Jac. 1. for the not reading thereof it was therefore in most Churches very seldom and in some Churches never read and it being a long time since the making of this Law and the Penalty appointed thereby to be paid by the Offenders very small and proof by two witnesses troublesom it was therefore very seldom put in execution So for the more effectual discouragement and restraining of this spreading and catching profane Vice another Act of Parliament has been made in the sixth and seventh years of his present Majesties reign King William the third something more severe as appears by the Tenure thereof hereafter following By the Statute of the 6 7 Gul. 3. Ch. 2. it is Enacted That if any Person or Persons shall profanely Swear or Curse in the presence and hearing of any Justice of Peace of the County Riding or Division or of the Mayor or other Head Officer or Justice of Peace for any City or Town-Corporate or by the Confession of the party offending before any such Magistrate where the said Offence shall be committed that then for every such Offence the party so offending if a Servant Day-labourer common Soldier or common Sea-man shall forfeit and pay to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such offence is committed one Shilling and every other Person two Shillings and in case any of the Persons aforesaid shall after Conviction offend a second time such Person shall forfeit and pay double and if a third time treble the sum respectively by him or her to be paid for the first Offence And upon neglect or refusal of paiment of the said Forfeiture any Justice of Peace of the County Riding or Division or Mayor or other Head Officer or Justice of Peace for any City or Town-Corporate where the Offence is committed shall have Authority and are required to send his Warrant to the Constable Tything-man Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor of the Parish where the Offence is committed or where the Offender shall inhabit thereby commanding them or some or one of them to levy by Distress and sale of the Goods of the Offender or Offenders the sum so forfeited for the use of the Poor of the Parish as aforesaid and for want of Distress then every such Offender being above the age of sixteen Years shall by such Warrant as aforesaid be publickly set in the Stocks for the space of one Hour for every single Offence and for any number of Offences whereof he shall be Convicted at one and the same time then two Hours and if the party offending be under the age of sixteen years and shall not forthwith pay the said Forfeiture then he or she shall by Warrant as aforesaid be whip'd by the Constable or by the Parent Guardian or Master of such Offender in the presence of the Constable And if any Justice of Peace or chief Magistrate shall wilfully or wittingly omit the performance of his Duty in the execution of this Act he shall forfeit the sum of five Pounds one moiety to the use of the Informer to be recovered by Action Suit Bill or Plaint in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection c. shall be allowed nor any more than one Imparlance And if any Action or Suit shall be commenc'd or brought against any Justice of Peace Constable or other Officer for any thing done in the pursuance of this Act concerning the said Offences the Defendant in such Action may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in Evidence and upon a Verdict for the Defendant or Non-suit of the Plaintiff or Discontinuance then the Defendant shall have treble Costs No Person to be prosecuted or troubled for any Offence against this Statute unless the same be proved and prosecuted within ten days next after the Offence committed This Act shall be publickly read four several times in the Year in all Parish Churches and publick Chappels by the Parson Vicar or Curate of the respective Parishes or Chappels immediately after Morning-Prayer on four several Sundays that is to say the Sunday next after the four and twentieth day of June the nine and twentieth day of September the five and twentieth day of December and the five and twentieth day of March under the pain of twenty Shillings for every such Omission or Neglect And the Justice of Peace Mayor or other Head Officer shall register in a Book to be kept for that purpose all the Convictions made before him upon this Act and the time of making thereof and for what Offence and shall certify the same to the next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the said County or Place where the Offences are committed to be there kept upon Record by the respective Clerks of the Peace to be seen without Fee or Reward Altho some Persons accustomed to profane Swearing and Cursing in their ordinary discourse and communication may possibly evade the Punishments ordained and appointed by the aforementioned Laws for such abominable wickedness yet such daring presumptuous Sinners may be assured they cannot without serious and unfeigned Repentance and an absolute and total renouncing and forsaking of their Wickedness escape the punishments threatned by Almighty God against such provoking Sins and that they may not be ignorant thereof I shall in the next Chapter set down several proofs of Scripture to that purpose in hopes that upon the perusal and serious Consideration thereof their Consciences may be touched with the guilt of their profane debauched Wickedness CHAP. V. Some Texts of Scripture shewing the odiousness and danger of profane customary Swearing and Cursing THOV shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Exod. 20. 7. Deut. 5. 11. He that Curseth his Father or Mother shall surely be put to death Exod. 21. 17. Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of thy

People Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not swear by my Name falsly neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 12. Thou shalt not curse the Deaf nor put a stumbling block before the Blind but shalt fear thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 14. He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death Levit. 24. 16. Every one that curseth his Father or his Mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his Father or his Mother his Blood shall be upon him Lev. 20. 9. Cursed be he that curseth his Father or his Mother Deut. 27. 16. The Vngodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his Thoughts His Mouth is full of Cursing Deceit and Fraud under his Tongue is Vngodliness and Vanity Psal 10. 4 7. For the sin of their Mouth and for the words of their Lips they shall be taken in their Pride and why Their Preaching is of Cursing and Lies Psal 59. 12. Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in Lies they give good words with their Mouth but curse with their Heart Psal 62. 4. His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him He clothed himself with Cursing like as with a Raiment and it shall come into his Bowels like Water and like Oil into his Bones Psal 119. 16 17. The wicked is snared by the Transgression of his Lips but the just shall come out of Trouble Prov. 12. 13. A wholesom Tongue is a Tree of Life but perverseness therein is a breach in Spirit Prov. 15. 4. A man's Belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his Mouth and with the increase of his Lips shall he be filled Death and Life are in the power of the Tongue and they that love it shall eat the Fruit thereof Prov. 18. 20 21. Whoso Curseth his Father or his Mother his Lamp shall be put out in obscure Darkness Prov. 20. 20. Whoso keepeth his Mouth and his Tongue keepeth his Soul from Trouble Prov. 21. 23. As the Bird by wandring as the Swallow by flying so the Curse causeless shall not come Prov. 26. 2. There is a Generation that curseth their Father and doth not bless their Mother Prov. 30. 11. Suffer not thy Mouth to cause thy Flesh to sin Eccles 5. 6. Curse not the King no not in thy Thought and curse not the rich in thy Bed chamber For a Bird of the Air shall carry the Voice and that which hath Wings shall tell the matter Eccles 10. 20. For the Land is full of Adulterers for because of swearing the Land mourneth the pleasant places of the Wilderness are dried up and their course is evil and their force is not right Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the Darkness they shall be driven on and fall therein for I will bring evil upon them even the year of their Visitation saith the Lord. Jer. 23. 10 12. By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing Adultery they break out and Blood toucheth Blood Hosea 4. 2. For Wisdom is a loving Spirit and will not acquit a Blasphemer of his words for God is witness of his Reins and a true beholder of his Heart and a hearer of his Tongue Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid neither shall Vengeance when it punisheth pass by him For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the Vngodly and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked Deeds Wisd 1. 6 8 9. The Blessing of the Father establisheth the Houses of Children but the Curse of the Mother rooteth out Foundations Ecclus. 3. 9. Then said he unto me This is the Curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole Earth for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on that side according to it I will bring it forth saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall enter into the House of the Thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the midst of his House and shall consume it with the Timber thereof and the Stones thereof Zech. 5. 3 4. Accustom not thy Mouth to swearing neither use thy self to the naming of the Holy One. A man that useth much Swearing shall be filled with Iniquity and the plague shall never depart from his House if he shall offend his Sin shall be upon him and if he acknowledg not his Sin he maketh a double Offence and if he swear in vain he shall not be Innocent but his House shall be full of Calamities Ecclus. 23. 9. 11. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Foot-stool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy Head because thou canst not make one Hair white or black But let your Communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 34 35 36 37. For God commanded saying Honour thy Father and thy Mother and he that Curseth Father or Mother let him die the Death Mat. 15. 4. Their Throat is an open Sepulchre with their Tongues they have used Deceit the poison of Asps it under their Lips Whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness Destruction and Misery are in their ways There is no fear of God before their Eyes Rom. 3. 13 14 16 18. Let bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4. 31. The Tongue is a Fire a world of Iniquity it defileth the whole Body and setteth on fire the course of Nature and it is set on fire of Hell It is an unruly Evil full of deadly Poison Therewith bless we God and therewith curse we Men which are made after the similitude of God Out of the same Mouth proceedeth Blessing and Cursing my Brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 6 8 9 10. But above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into Condemnation James 5. 12. If any idle debauched Swearers and Cursers be so emboldned in their profane customary Wickedness as that after the reading or hearing of these before-mentioned places of Scripture they shall still dare to proceed and run on in their wilful wicked sinful Courses I shall for their further Caution in this next following Chapter give them a brief relation of several signal Instances of God's severe wrath and displeasure against such Wickedness manifested by the fearful terrible and amazing