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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90903	A summons for svvearers, and a law for the lips in reproving them wherein the chiefe disswasives from swearing are proposed, the sleight objections for swearing answered, the strange judgments upon swearers, forswearers, cursers, that take Gods name in vain, related. Which may be a terror to the wicked for swearing, and a preservative for the godly from swearing. With sundry arguments to prove the verity of the Scriptures, and excellencie of the decalogue, against all prophane and atheisticall deniers thereof. By Walter Powell, preacher at Standish, neer Glocester.	Powell, Walter, b. 1590 or 91.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3098; Thomason E1228_1; ESTC R203197	141,220	287

through thy eares and raigneth not as a Prince in thy heart It is one thing to fall into their company as travellers drinke at an Inne together and another thing to dwell delight in their company It is one thing to speake with them and another thing to approve of their sinne The Apostles meaning is that sometimes wee shall have a lawfull occasion to converse and commerce with wicked persons but that must onely be when a lawfull calling doth warrant us and then must wee shine as lights in the midst of a crooked generation that we by our silence be not infected with them but they by our dislike of their sinne reclaimed from the same Sparing societie there must bee with them when by our admonition wee finde no amendment and others that are not so offensive and vexatious in their communication must be resorted unto Psal 16.3 that so all our delight may be in the Saints and those that excell in vertue Psal 16.3 If all our delight must be in the Saints then must wee all labour to be Saints and never have any setled delight in the societie of any obstinate fearfull heaven-daring hell-hastening swearers that alwayes stop their eares and hate to be reformed charme the charmer never so wisely never so daily And so much for answer to those severall Objections why men are loath to depart the company of such resolute and notorious swearers Now though I have so earnestly perswaded to the avoyding the daily societie and familiaritie with those swearers because of infection suspition malediction and have endeavoured to repell what might seeme to be alledged to the contrary yet doe I wish deeme and desire that they be not quickly and willingly neglected by us and left in this their sin and the danger thereof eternall condemnation but that before wee depart and wholly abandon their company wee use all possible meanes of and for their conversion considering that such were some of us though now by Christs bloud we are washed cleansed Let us leave no course unassayed whether of reprehension or correction according to our calling and conscience which is the fifth and last particular of this sixth and last use of Imitation the motives why wee must be so carefull and constant to imitate God in due reproving and sharpe punishing of this sinne And when hereunto your zeale hath been heated and the edge of your affections somewhat sharpened I shall be ready to take my worke from off the Loome turne my pinnace into the harbour by making a conclusion of this my second observation Sinfull swearing though by man it be not yet by God shall severely be punished Therefore Let man see by the light of this Sunne and light his Candle at the largenesse of this fire endeavouring to reprove and punish this sinne because God our heavenly Father hath commanded us as deare children to be followers of him Wee are to reprove sinners all sinners in generall and in our calling punish them therefore swearers also in particular For many will acknowledge sinne in the bunch to be reproved but not in the berry Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart Levit. 19.17 but in my wise rebuke him and not suffer sinne upon his soule Wilt thou with Joab kisse with thy mouth and in the same instant stab thy brother to the heart Wilt thou hold him up in his rotten words and rayling oathes approving the same by thy silence and so be ready to cut the throat of his soule Wilt thou pretend such great kindnesse to him superficially and practice so little effectually or seeme to regard his bodie and in the meane time suffer the Milstone of sin lying heavie on his soule Wilt thou shew greater respect to the haire then to the head to the bone then to the marrow to the bark then to the tree to the shell then to the fish to the house then to the inhabitant to the body that is subject to vanity then to the soule that is to continue to eternity By this shall all men know that yee are my Disciples Joh. 13.35 if yee love one another Now what doth manifest our love Not inviting to board not speaking smoothly to the face but a studious endevour to consider what is profitable to our neighbours soule that so when he falls he may be raised up by the tongue of Admonition or hand of correction Admonish or exhort one another daily Heb. 3.13 lest any of you at any time bee hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sinne For the heart of man through the cold climate of custome through the want of zeale and devotion through sinnes deceitfulnesse and Satans subtilty will quickly deeply bee frozen and through hardned if the like heat of daily admonition doe not thaw the same The water beginning to freeze will scarcely beare a peny weight afterwards it will beare a shilling then a man at length horse and man cart load and all Perhaps the swearer at first through tendernesse of conscience or Gods restraining power will utter and broach but petty oathes as by my fay our Lady Cock and Pye c. after through custome and evill societie slavish oathes as by this Light Bread Drink fire crosse of coyn c. At last if the Devill hath long sate in the chaire of his heart it will be so deeply frozen that he will make no bones of the greatest hellish oathes Wounds Nailes Blood Heart Life Soule of God c. Let therefore opportune admonition at least the hammer of correction break the Ice dissolve the hardnesse dislodge Satan and dash this custome into shivers Save such friends as brands out of the fire Jude 23. and look not doubtfully upon them staying till other men come to help thee pull them out For so being in the fire they may be burned before they be delivered because this is wild fire yea hell fire James 3.6 set on fire of Hell it selfe James 3.6 And in Chap. 5.12 He speakes of a sudden falling into condemnation Facilis descensus Averni All sin in generall wee are invited to reprove in respect 1. Of precept 1. In the Law Leviticus 19.17 2. In the Gospel Mat. 7.5 and 18.17 3. By the Apostle Col. 4.17 1 Tim. 5.20 2. Of practice 1. By God the Father Gen. 4.6 2. By Christ the Son Mat. 4.7 Io. 8.44 3. By God the holy Ghost Io. 16.8 9. 4. By the Apostles Luk. 3.7 Gal. 2.11 3. Of praise We should pull out a moat Mat. 7.5 and so preserve the whole body He shall hide a multitude of sinnes and save a soule from death Iam. 5.20 by removing the milstone of sinne that lay so fast upon the heart of his soule Levit. 19.17 When as he that neglecteth this duty discovereth himselfe First to be an hypocrite secondly to murder soules even of neighbours whom they would be thought to love Prov. 11.9 4. Of profit both the good of the Admonished Admonisher 1. The good and

and that speedily 2 Reas for spe d. 1. For generall uniformity in one family 2. Because of delayes inutility 1. For dost thou thy self sanctifie Gods name and shall thy sonnes or servants blaspheme it What communion should righteousnesse and unrighteousnesse have What fellowship light and darknesse What concord Christ and Belial 2 Cor. 6. Shall thy house be of divers dispositions as Hamibals Armie was of divers Nations Shall thy houshold which should be as the Church of God be like a Motley cloath or a Medly colour some of thy house of one die and some of another God will have all his family weare one and the same Livery herein must thou imitate God let all thy family be uniforme and suteable that all agreeing and according together they may all look walk and draw in the service of God their maker and thee their master How then should my businesse be performed Quest if I should have no such sinful swearing servants in my family And how can Gods service be performed by thee or them if thou keep such Answ Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur It is lesse shame not to admit then to cast out such a servant but it is as true Tutius ejicitur like a raw morsell that sits ill in the stomach he is more safely cast out then retained or if hee bee a retainer yet not to dwell under thy roof hee should not setup his rest there If David will not have a lier tarry in his sight Psal 101. then much lesse a swearer sit sup lodge yeare and day with him Hee will not have his family a mingle-mangle to confist pell-mell of men of all sorts and conditions If men know that any have been in that place where the plague reigneth and would come into their houses they presently barre the gates against him they shut him out by no meanes will they suffer him to enter and why verily because they would not have the plague brought in amongst them lest they should bee infected and die But alas why should not the death of the soule be much more feared Why should not masters banish out of their services and families such pestiferous caitiffes which through their assiduous and abominable swearing infect all their houshold not onely their bodies but also their souls on which alone and wholly depends the woe and weal of their bodies Awake therefore yee Knights Gentlemen Yeomen all men suffer oh suffer no swearers in your houses eschew them more then a venemous serpent entertain a Dragon sooner in your houses then any such one that hath pleasure in swearing the former only hurt the body the other destroy both body and soule of such as are infected by them Maintain none of them that shall bring the plague of God upon your houses Suffer not the tender breasts of your children to be poysoned in their youth with the pestilent communication of these abominable Sweaters If you cannot alwayes prevent the entrance yet prevent their continuance Search them out for they wil not easily manifest themselves and being manifested reprehended and not amended cast them out A bird may light upon or flie into a mans house but he may chuse whether he nestle and breed there If their seeming sanctitie drew servants into thy house and service yet let their impiety daily blasphemy drive them out again Nay if sonnes be disobedient to parents Deut. 21.18 13.6 the parents themselves are to bring them out to the Judges and the people to stone them Nay a brother a daughter a wife offending in some cases are not to be spared Nay Asa King of Judah is commended for his uprightnesse in this respect that when Maacha his own mother committed idolatry 1 King 15.13 would not spare her but deposed her from her Regency And is not continuall swearing a great sinne breaking this great commandement of our great God Henry the fourth of that name King of England when his eldest sonne the Prince was by the Lord chiefe Justice for some great misdemeanour commanded and committed to prison hee thanked God that he had a sonne of that obedience and a Judge of such unpartiall and undaunted courage For indeed Religion or Justice Non novit patrem non novit matrem veritatem novit neither knoweth father or mother but onely the truth Jer. 22.24 Though Coniah were as the Signet of Gods finger yet would hee plucke him thence Governours Masters Housholders as they communicate with God in his name Psa 82. I said ye are Gods so should they in his nature who judgeth without respect of persons 1 Pet. 1.17 not bolding any guiltlesse that taketh his name in vain 2. Reas 2. Delayes inutility Delayes in other things are not good but in this of reprehension and punishment stark naught 1. Evils ensuing are 3. Because the Swearer not presently reproved doth against another time his next swearing get the examples of others swearing in his company for his protection as favourers and actors of this sinne and so consequently makes them the means of evasion 2. Because petty oathes if a man may call any little that are commited against the great God by our silence and not punishment grow to hellish oathes A little fire which at first might have been put out with a spoonfull of water being let to burne in short time turneth Towns and Cities into ashes Reproofs and punishments are like medicines which being kept too long hazard the patient and lose their vertue Magistrates Parents Masters must not let this disease goe too long lest by suffering that proves incurable which might have been holpen by timely administring The ulcer is to be lanced betime before it grow to a Gangrene the Tetter to be killed before it spread to bee a Ringworme God commands Fathers if they love their children l ro 1 3.24 to correct them betimes and to chastise them while there is hope Artaxerxes said to Ezra Ezra 7.26 Whesoever will not doe the Law of thy God and the Law of the King let judgement be executed speedily upon him c. And the reason is given Eccles 8.11 Because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to doe evill 3. Because he that should reprove many times in tract of time proves colder in his zeale of reproofe and punishment for if thou wilt not adventure to passe through at low water how wilt thou doe at full sea If thou durst not pull up a twig how wilt thou doe when it comes to a tree If thou fearest the skirmish with a single how wilt thou endure to incounter with an host of hellish enemies If thou art silent at the hearing of one how wilt thou be emboldened to reprove many horrid oathes Thus you see the spurs for speedinesse in reproving Swearers 1. For generall uniformity 2. Because of delayes inutility as 1. The examples of others

not be overthrown Acts 5.38 The meeting with all new sins Arg. 14. though written many hundred yeares agoe and containing answers to whatsoever the carnall heart of man can object to the contrary The constant abiding of it in our hearts when other knowledge vanisheth at the houre of death to comfort our soules and instruct others Arg. 15. with this at that time Iacob comforted himselfe Gen. 48.3 4. with this at that time David instructed his sonne Solomon 1 Kings 2.3 4. The confirmation of it by many miracles from heaven by the hand of God himself Arg. 16. as by raising the widow of Sarephaths sonne whereby she confessed that the word of the Lord in the prophets mouth was truth 1 King 17.24 Ier. 5.36 Heb. 2.3 4. The delivery of it by mean and unlearned men and not by Rulers of the world Arg. 17. who seeke their own glory Moses a Shepheard Exod. 4. Amos a Heardsman Amos 7. the Apostles Fishermen Acts 10. The aiming at mans ho linesse in this world Arg. 18. and at his eternall happinesse in the next and not at terrene things as those writings doe that come from men The end of the Commandement is Charity Purity Faith and a good Conscience 1 Tim. 1.5 All Scripture is surely given by inspiration from God because it is profitable for doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good workes 2 Tim. 3.16.17 The Scripture brings not onely learning Arg. 19. but patience comfort hope Rom. 13.4 yea heaven and salvation Rom. 1.16 So that most certainly the Word is not from men Arg. 20. for oun nature is contrary to it nor from Satan seeing he raiseth up instruments against it therefore it is from God himselfe These reasons of the truth of the word may convince the Atheist and the threats contained in this word should may and shall by Gods grace convert the swearer forswearer curser especially seeing the judgements included in this letter of the Law is so plain so peremptory and free from partiality Which Decalogue or ten words though the whole Scriptures be equally holy yet doe in a principall manner challenge and call for reverence and obedience and that 1. In respect of the Soverainty of this Decalogue given immediately by God 2. The antiquity the fountaine of all other lawes 3. The generality binding all men high and low which humane lawes doe not 4. Immutability admitting no dispensation or exception 5. The utility presupposing and promising all sorts of blessings Dent. 28. 6. The solemnity delivered with the sound of Thunder and Trumpet Exod. 19.18 In the very hearing and sight of the Israelites 7. The brevity and order of it looking to God on the right hand in the first Table and to man on the left hand in the second Table Vide hac fusius in Alstedio pag. 171. A part of which law are the words of this Text The Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine which in the beginning middle end cry and call for no more nor lesse then reverence regard faith obedience that so the pains of the Writer may not be misapplied nor the time of the Reader misimployed but the duty of both discharged and the glory of God by both promoted Deo Vnico laus summa A Prayer OLord and heavenly Father who art incomprehensible in Majesty great in power fearfull in judgements holy in workes rich in mercy true in promise who hast commanded us to ask and we shall have to seek and we shall find to knocke and it shall bee opened unto us In confident assurance of which gracious promise to be performed and in dutifull obedience to which powerfull commandement to be obeyed we thy poore dust-creeping-creatures wormes-meat rather then men are emboldned to approach unto thy throne of grace acknowledgeing that we are not worthy to name thy Name with our lippes or to call upon it in our prayers or to expect help from it in our need and distresse considering that we have so often blasphemed this thy great fearful glorious name by our thoughts that have been vaine by our words that have been unprofitable and by our works that have been abominable by rash common sinfull thinking on speaking of and swearing by thy Name Titles Attributes Creatures without any reverent regard of thy Majesty before whom or the manner how or the end wherefore we think on them in heart speak of them in word or sweare by them in oath We often use but as often abuse thy glorious Name by not walking as becommeth thy name Gospel by unsanctified use of thy good creatures without looking to thee from whom they came by heedlesse admiration vain supplication opposing thy truth through blindnesse denying it through feare scoffing at and persecuting those that professe the same by saying or thinking that thou wilt neither doe good nor evill that there is no profit in thy service that in adversity thou carest not for us or hast not power or will to deliver us By sacrificing to our net abusing thy blessings blessing our hearts against thy threatnings not beleeving but neglecting the pretiousnesse of thy promises by not performing what we vow and promise in sicknesse adversity and at the Sacraments by sinning because thou forbearest to punish rejoycing in the miseries and disgraces of thy children offering the blinde and lame for thy service trusting more in men money carnall helps and means then in the strong Tower the glorious Name of thee our Lord and God But especially and most frequently and fearfully doe wee abuse thy Name by swearing lightly commonly rashly heathenishly superstitiously slavishly without any cause moving us or regard to thy Majesty sometimes by leaving thy Name sometimes by adjoyning others with it somtimes swearing by thy Creatures making them to bee our Lords which thou hast appointed our servants onely yea without any distinction at all of our words from our oathes By which one sinne of swearing much more by all other our sinnes more in number then the haires of our heads grasse in the fields starres in the Firmament or sands on the Sea shore adjoyned thereto wee have transgressed thy Law abused thy patience grieved thy Spirit discredited our profession offended th● godly hardened the wicked wounded our soules and made our selves liable to the certainty severity eternity of thy judgements seeing the wages of every sin is death in it selfe and in thy Law thou hast so plainly proposed Thou wilt not hold them guiltlesse that take thy Name in vaine Such sinners though the eye of the Magistrate cannot see nor the hand of Master will not touch nor the tongue of the Minister dare not reach or reprehend yet every such a one whatsoever he be Cedar or Shrub high or low Master or servant noble or ignoble Thou O Lord with whom at this time we have to do that art all