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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77739	A confutation of the Anabaptists, and all others who affect not civill government; proving the lawfullnesse of it: and a full answer to all their cavills, that are, or can be made against it. With a nut-cracker for an unnaturall nut, whose shell is as hard as the scales of Leviathan, and the kernell of his heart as hard as a piece of the nether mill-stone, Iob 41.15.24. yet the hammer of Gods word that breaketh in pieces the rocks, Ier. 23.29. will break this nut, that all may see the devillish kernell that is in it. Also arguments against the Anabaptists, proving that infants borne of Christian parents ought to be baptized: with a full answer to all their cavills that are (or can be) made against it. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Bakewell, Thomas, b. 1618 or 19.	1644 (1644)	Wing B530; Thomason E51_20; ESTC R209932	98,225	89

3. Now this Covenant between the King and the representative body of the Kingdome bindes all in obedience see Iosh 9.18 19.20 What the Princes of Israel then did if Saul although a King and many hundred of years after shall presume to breake this Covenant his house and Kingdome shall sinart for it see 2 Sam. 21. Nay although the covenanting with those people was a sinne and many of the people murmured at it yet it being made must not be broken which doth at this time charge us all to be under this Nationall Covenant considering the representative body of the Land have solemnly taken it although some refractory people refuse it and murmure at it yet this wil not free any from observing of it Deut. 29.14 15. The Oath of the Kings of England taken out of the Parliament Role 1. H. 4. N. 17. The form of the Oath wont and accustomed to be taken at the CORONATION YOu shall keepe the Church of God the Clergy and the people entirely in peace and concord in God according to your power He shall answer I will keep them You shall cause equall and right Iustice in all your judgements and discretion in mercy and truth according to your power Hee shall answer I wild●●e it You shall grant just Lawes and Customes to be kept and you shal promise those shal be protected by you and to the honour of God to be strengthned which the Common people shall chuse according to your power He shall answer I grant and promise it And the people bind themselves to the King in the Oath of Allegiance BUt now step out the Anabaptists who despise government saying all swearing is unlawfull for say they Christ saith swear not at all Mat. 5.34 I answer that is meant in our communication which must be Yea yea and nay nay v 37. Again God commands swearing as a part of his worship saying Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and serve him and shale sweare by his name Deuteron 6.13 10.20 Now Christ came to do the will of his Father Iohn 5.30 And not to contradict it as our Anabaptists blasphemously affirme while they say Christ here flatly forbids swearing which was commanded by God as a part of his worship but see how these wicked people would make a breach of Unity in the very Trinity betweene God the Father and God the Son then wel may these blasphemers make rents and divisions in Kingdomes and Common wealths Again the Apostle is so far from denying the lawful use of swearing that hee gives a sufficient reason to prove the lawfulnesse of it in some cases for saith he men verily sweare by the greater and an oath for confirmation is the end of all strife Heb. 6.16 Again we have many examples of them that have sworn upon some occasions both out of the old Testament and out of the New Gen. 21.23.31.53 Rom. 9.1.2 Cor. 1.23 2 Kings 6.31 This may suffice to prove that swearing in some cases is lawfull Now to know what an oath is we shall see by the parts of it which are two Confession and Imprecation Confession is threefold though for the outward forme the words be few First a man confesseth that which he sweareth to be true in his conscience 2. That God is a witnesse not of his outward action and speech but also of his particular conscience 3. That God is an omnipotent Judge of all and of him that sweareth and able to justifie him if he sweare truly or otherwise to condemne him eternally if he sweare falsly these things are confessed by him that sweareth The second thing in an oath is Imprecation which is a prayer to God for two things 1. That God would be witnesse with him that sweareth to testifie that hee sweareth truly and according to his conscience so Paul did Rom. 9.1 I speak the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost 2. a man prayes that God would become a Judge to curse him with eternall wrath if he sweare falsly thus did Paul 2 Cor. 1.23 I call God to record upon my soule and the forme of swearing in old time was the using of this imprecation God doe so to me and more also if I do not thus and thus 2 Kings 6.31 Thus you see what an oath is Now it may be demanded when be the times and in what cases we may lawfully sweare seeing we may not sweare in our communication I answer a man may lawfully sweare when the Magistrate ministreth an oath unto a man upon a just occasion for the Magistrate hath the power of God in this case and therefore when he justly requires it of a man then he may lawfully swear Secondly when a man 's own calling generall or particular necessarily requires an oath and that in foure cases 1. When the taking of an oath serveth to maintain procure or win unto God any part of his glory or to preserve the same from disgrace in this regard Paul moved with a godly zeale used an oath for confirmation of his Doctrine that the Churches to whom he writ might be established in the truth and so glorifie God the more Secondly when his oath serveth to maintain or further his own or others salvation or preservation in soule or body in this case Paul calls God for a record unto his soule that he came not to Corinth to spare them 2 Cor. 1.23 And David to further himselfe in the way of salvation bound himself by an oath that he would keepe Gods Commandements Psal 119.106 Thirdly when the oath serves to confirme and establish peace and society between party and party countrey and countrey Kingdome and Kingdome Thus did Abraham and Abimilech sweare each to other Gen. 21.23 And Jacob and Laban Gen. 31.53 And by vertue hereof do Subjects binde themselves by oath in Allegiance to their Princes and souldiers to their Generalls 4ly when a man by oath may free himselfe and can no otherwise from temporall losses or procure to himselfe some temporall benefits which be of great weight and moment then do men take an oath for confirmation to put an end to all strife Heb. 6.16 For much strife and contention ariseth about worldly affairs and in this regard a man by oath may purge himselfe lawfully from infamy and slander in these four cases a man may lawfully swear not only before the Magistrate but also privately so it be with due reverence and good conscience but in common talke or on light occasions a man cannot lawfully sweare either by great or small oaths for that it is to take the name of God in vaine Secondly it may be demanded how must a man take an oath when he is by a just occasion called to swear I answer there be three vertues or ingredients in an oath which must not be wanting Ier. 4.2 Thou shalt sweare the Lord liveth in truth in judgment and in righteousnesse First truth and that respecteth 2. things 1. 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