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A12216 A counter-plea to an apostataes [sic] pardon A sermon preached at Paules Crosse vpon Shroue-Sunday, February 15. 1617. By Robert Sibthorpe, preacher of the Word of God at Waterstratforde in Buckingamshire. Sybthorpe, Robert, d. 1662. 1618 (1618) STC 22527; ESTC S117406 35,467 60

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14. And what greater blasphemie can there bee against the Deitie Or what more to bee auoyded Which that we may take heed of 2. We must secondarily shunne swearing familiarly For as Chrysest Vsual swearing super Math. 5. Nemo est qui frequenter iuret qni aliquando non periuret Looke how in many wordes there will bee folly So in many oathes will follow periury And therefore attend to the Iniunction of the Almighty Swearing by Creatures touching this particular So often as thou hearest or vtterest his name thou shalt feare this glorious and fearefull name the Lord thy God Deut. 28.18 So that as Phil. 3.10 At the Name of Iesus euery knee shall bow Semblaby at the name of Iehouah euery hart shall tremble and not dare to vse it familiarlie For such fall to abuse it falsely And then how shall hee pardon them for this Nor are they to suppose that they can shift the guilt of this sinne by swearing fondly as by creatures or superstitiously as by Idols Let a 2 dae 2 dae part 1. Q. 89. Loc. Citat Aquinas and the other Schoolemen herein follow their fantasies I am not for them Neyther Quoad b Simplex Contestatio innitur diuinae veritati sicut sides c. Exceratione vero indueitur Creatura c. Ibid. Contestationem Nor Quoad Execrationem Neyther In quantum diuina veritas manifestatur in Creaturis Nor In quantum Diuinum Iudicium exercetur in Creatura As they distinguish For c Perk. Golden Chaine c. 22 As Pledges Cognizances of Gods glory c. 1 Cor. 15.31 1. Sam. 20 3. As the Lord liueth and as thy soule liueth c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Odys howsoeuer in asseuerations the creatures may bee vsed yet in oathes They as well as Idolls are absolutely to bee eschewed for as the Almighty with great circumspection interdicts the Israraelites that they should not make mention of the names of other Gods Neyther let them be heard out of their mouth Exod. 23.13 So our Sauiour expresly prohibeteth the swearing by any Creature Mat. 5.35.36 a V●le D. Hylar de 〈◊〉 12 paulo a principio super his verbis Lest thereby they should seeme To worshippe and Jerue the creature more then the Creator who is blessed for euermore Rom. 1 25. For what dooth man else whilest hee sweares by them but attribute Omniscience and Omnipotency to them which are peculiar onely to God And therefore as Deut. 6.13 10.20 Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and serue him and to him shalt thou cleaue and sweare onely by his Name not by those that are no Gods For otherwise in steade of taking his name in vaine by swearing by the true God thou committest Idolatry by swearing by those that are no Gods How then can the Papists who maintaine practise the swearing by Creatures as the Blessed Lady Angels and Saints departed Yea that which is more by those which eyther are or were no Creatures before their owne superstition made them Idols How can they I say excuse themselues from being guilty of this sinne Or what is it possible they should plead● for their pardons Who haue thus forsaken him and sworne by those that are no Gods But if the Case bee so hard to procure a pardon then me thinkes I heare some scoffer say Wee would know the punishment Which is the last Circumstance considerable in this sinne The punishment c. as in all others For so in sin still punishment makes the period To whom I returne this Resolution Besides that the Wages of euery sinne is death Rom. 6.23 Both Animae Corporis Temporall and Eternall and so consequently may be concluded of this There are many great and grieuous punishments both priuate and publike which especially attende vpon this sinne of 1. Swearing 2. For-swearing and 3. Idolatrous swearing Fondly by those that are no Gods For as the Psalmist sayth expresly The mouthes of those that sweare by false Gods shall be stopped and confounded shall they be that worship them that are no Gods So vtterly wil he haue their names taken out of our mouths as that there may be no more remembrance of them Hos 2.16.17 And a Ier. 23.10 Hos 4.1 23. Swearing is ranckt in the prime place of those sinnes for which the Lorde enters such a controuersie with the Land That the whole shall mourne for it and euery particular inhabitant that dwelleth therein shall languish with the very beastes of the Fields and the Foules of heauen yea the fishes of the sea And I pray God it be now no occasion that the creatures growne so vnder yea suffer so for our sinnes And as for forswearing Not onely the particular punishment of Zidkiiah may shew how hatefull it is and how rigorously reuenged who was himselfe taken Captiue and saw his sonnes slaine before his face and lastly had his eyes put out and being bounde in Fetters of Brasse was though a King carried prisoner to Babylon 2. Reg. 25.6.7 because hee forsware himselfe and brake that oath in his owne person which Nebuchadnezar had caused him to sweare by GOD 2. Chr. 36.23 But the punishment of Periury euen vpon the posteritie of those who durst to violate their Forefathers vowes may more thē manifest to any who will vnderstand the seuere indignation of him whose name is blasphemed by it Three yeares fearefull famine ouerrunnes al Israel 2. Sam. 21.1 vntill seauen sonnes of Saul are hanged vp against the Sunne Ver. 6. for breaking but one Oath and that none of his owne a Iosh 9 13.19.20 but made three hundred yeares before by Ioshua to the Gibeonites b Ver. 14 22 2● yea and that procured by fraud too So Religious should the reuerence of an Oath be euen to deceyuers And so great is the Diuine reuenge vpon the violaters euen in posterity Nor is it onely of this obliging efficacy if it be taken by such parties as are both seruants of the true God but euen betwixt Beleeuers and Insidels Christians and Mahumetans Iewes or Pagans As besides that the afore cited approuing practises of Isaac and Ahimelech Iacob and Laban doe sufficiently proue it appeares most euidently in the successe of c B●nsinus apud B●●●le Theater of Gods iudgments Vladislaus K. of Hungarie who breaking that league with Amurath the Turke of which there were Articles engrossed in both Languages and a solemne Oath taken for confirmation on both parties by means of that perfidious truce-breaking the Hungarians at first hauing the vpper hand No sooner Amurath although almost ouercome pulled out of his bosome the Articles of the violated Truce and lifting vp his eyes to Heauen vttered these speeches O Iesu Christ these are the Leagues that thy Christians haue made and confirmed by swearing by thy Name and yet haue broken them againe If thou beest a God as they say thou art Reuenge this iniury which is offered both thee