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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

word of God as in generall so in particular of the Morall Law therein contained As for the main point whereat the Author aimeth in this treatise it is set out with much variety As a groundwork he hath set down sundry distinctons of Gods name and discovered above an hundred inventions of taking it in vain Before he laies his Battery against the great sins of rash swearing and false swearing he judiciously setteth down the lawfull and right use of swearing and therein answereth the Anabaptists Then he distinctly declareth wherein this sin of undue swearing lieth how hainous it is and how many waies committed withall he giveth sound answers to the severall vain Apologies that are made for it and addeth sundry motives against it for the better observing whereof he addeth prudent directions yea and to strike the greater terrour into mens souls against this sin fearfull judgements of God upon false and rash swearers The like is done about cursing This treatise affords such soveraign remedies against those Epidemicall maladies as it is worthy to be published for all that stand in aw of Gods judgements to read it It is a fit Treatise to be commended not only to common swearers themselvs but also to others who may hereby be directed how to prevent those sins in such as have not been accustomed thereunto and also to redress them in such as are too much addicted to the same March 24. 1644. William Gouge I Have seen a Tract intituled A Summons for Swearers and a Law for the Lips in reproving them I think there is not any English Author extant that contains more plain pithy pertinent disswasives from this sin of swearing or more variety of examples of Gods judgements upon swearers for swearers cursers with rules of direction for the reprehension of such sinners for the matter manner time with sundry arguments to prove the truth of the Scriptures against all prophane Atheisticall deniers of the same all easie for capacity and various for delight I wish the Book were countenanced by Authority that every Parish if not Family might enjoy one to be helpfull to them for their information and reformation necessary for these times wherein the Land mournes in respect of this of swearing as of any other sinne I beleeve the little expence in procuring the Book would be abundantly recompenced to the soules both of these sinners and to all such whose dutie it is to reprove the same Edmund Calamy TO THE HONOrable Sir WILLIAM LENTHALL Speaker of the House of COMMONS To the right Worshipfull Sir Robert Harley Sir Arthur Haselrigge Sir Iohn Wilde Knights Mr. Edmund Prideaux Mr. Nathanael Stephens Mr. Edward Stephens Mr. Edward Bainton Esquires Members of the House of Commons Sir Gyles Overbury Knight John Stevens Edward Rich Isaac Bromage Anthony Clifford Esquires Members of the Committee for Glocester Hereford c. W. P. wisheth sanctity in life comfort in death glory in Heaven GOOD Wine is not the worse for wanting nor bad wine the better for having a green bush before the Doore Custome claimes by prescription that such Books as come under the Presse to be made publick should be ushered with an Epistle which if it want it calleth into suspition that either the Author hath no friends of worth or that the worke is not worthy patronage There are two principall ends Right Worshipfull of Dedication either that the Patrons should countenance the subject or that the subject should work upon the Patrons That I may bee assured to bee exempted from flattery I exclude my selfe from neither of these ends Seeing swearing is a sinne whereunto both religious and irreligious are too prone the one by their common rash and wilfull swearing the other by their carelesse cold cowardly reproving the same therefore cannot wholly be unfitting you in which side soever you are to be ranked The subject being a sinne so universally spread in Court Citie Countrey it hath need finde some that may countenance and patronize it from the biting tongues of those whose wounds it labours to discover and cure I know very few who need not to have the edge of their zeale sharpened by the whetstone of Gods holy word and mens daily remembrances the Ministers of the Lord. In many things we sinne all and in all things some If you be free from this Epidemicall disease both in the active and passive part blesse God for it who hath wrought this admirable cure upon you seeing by nature every one is so propine unto it which occasioned God to bound this precept with so sharp thornes and threats saith Musculus In Loc. If you are not yet fully free the Author intreats the work may have leave to doe its best to make you free Neither doe I dedicate this Tract unto you onely that you might shelter it being a subject of this nature from the many stormes of malevolent tongues for I know it is sit that whosoever publisheth any thing unfit should beare the whole burthen of his own fault and whosoever ventureth to appeare in print must expect the common lot of all Writers to bee variously censured of various dispositions Some as Nebuzaradan burnt the Temple but kept the Gold will be content to take the matter yet blame the Author Others will happily or rather unhappily read it not out of conscience to make themselves good but out of curiosity to censure others to be bad In all these I would never desire friends to defend nor feare enemies to deprave me for what is good will defend it selfe and to flatter others fearing their censure for what is bad were rather impiety towards them then policie towards my selfe To feare any mans censure in so censorious an age were imbecillity and to think so to speak or write as to please all were to aime at an impossibility and either to endevour were meer folly But your names in a selected sort I make bold to prefix and that the rather seeing all of you by office and place I know should be and most of you by affection and practice I beleeve are professed enemies to this soule-killing heaven-daring land-loading peace-disturbing and hell-hastening sinne If these poore and unexpected papers find such kinde and expected entertainment in your hearts as the Author oft hath undeservedly found in many of your houses I doubt not but your publicke weekly practice in life will be as powerfull as my pulpit Sabbath precepts by voyce to work upon your Servingmen in houses your Tenants and many other inferior inhabitants in your Parishes that have necessary recourse unto and daily dependance on you Touching the Treatise it selfe I confesse my manner of handling things therein is like my selfe plain and homely without any gorgious garment of Rhetoricall Ornaments because I hold it a Maxime for my selfe ever to keep unto to desire rather to speak to the edification of the hearers and readers then for the ostentation of my selfe in speaking or writing yet I dare promise the matter to

to their purses or posterity who nothing care what shall become of their soules so as they may have profit here and leave their children rich behind them But what profit doth it prove in the end The son is counted a Gentleman before the world for the goods sake and the Father is reckoned before God and his holy Angels a fire-brand in hell The sonne is Lord of many possessions the father is a wretch and hath nothing The sonne is replenished with dainties joy and pleasure the father is filled full of bitter sorrowes and intolerable torments The sonne singeth playeth danceth and maketh merry the father weepeth sorroweth and wisheth himselfe never to have been born Behold how Dame Perjury rewardeth her servants at the later end Mark what Claudianus the heathen Poet concludeth touching perjury In prolem dilata ruunt perjuria patris Et poenam merito filius ore luit Et quas fallacis collegit lingua parentis Has eadem nati lingua refudit opes The perjuries of the Father escaping punishment in this world fall upon the sonne and look what riches the tongue of the deceitfull father hath gathered together even the very same hath the tongue of the sonne paid home again and wast fully spent The Jurers or witnesses through rashnesse and want of admonition by the Magistrate are suddenly brought to this fearfull sinne of perjuty for want of sober advice and mature deliberation through hast and in affection to the one party are prone to slide into this dangerons pit Whereas at the taking of their oath they should be exhorted so uncorruptly to look upon the matter to deale so truly and uprightly and to give so just a verdict even as though it should be presented and offered up to the high and everlasting Judge Jesus Christ Magistrates likewise that promise with a solemne oath to doe all things accordingly to equity and justice and to accept no person in judgement but to maintain the good and punish the evill to exalt vertue and to punish vice if contrary to their oath they deale unrighteously oppresse the succourlesse judge for favour condemne the good save the evill persecute the favourers of Gods word maintaine the Papists they are then forsworn and shall not uscape the punishment of perjury Bishops and Pastors that promise faithfulnes to be earnest preachers to set forth Gods word and live according to the same if they doe not labour in the harvest of Gods word doe not lead an honest and vertuous life they are forsworne and shall not be held guiltlesse The man and wife that promise faith and troth to each other that they will in all estates and extremities lean each to other the man to love his wife as himselfe and hold himselfe contented with her the woman reverently to feare and obey her husband in the Lord if they breake this promise and one delight not in another but each seek after strange flesh they are then forsworn and shall not escape the punishment of perjury The subiects that promise obedience and willing service to their Rulers if they breake their promise and resist high Powers are forsworne and shall not escape the plagues of perjury As for all Knights of the Post false and forswearers who like Putiphars wife doe onely shew the garments of honest men to prove their dishonest cause I wish them no other punishment then that which Philip of Macedon inflicted upon two of his subiects in whom hee saw no hope of grace Vnum à Macedonia fugere alterum persequi jussit he made the one of them to run out of Macedonia and the other to drive him A faire riddance of them both as is in the proverb without a Sessions Isocrates the Orator gives an excellent caution to all those who for the least advantage adventure to take an oath Take an oath saith he that is put unto thee for two causes either that thou mayst deliver thy selfe from a filthy crime or that thou mayst preserve thy friends that are in perill and danger but for money see thou sweare by no God although thou sweare righteously For to some thou shalt seem to forswear thy selfe and to some to bee desirous of money Surely a divine saying of an heathen man and worthy to bee written in Marble and brasse yea in the hearts of men Wherefore if the thought of the shame before men will not yet let thee feare and danger of the punishment from God restrain us from this so dreadfull and damnable a sin Foelices faciant si aliena pericula cautos It is well for us if the sufferings of others keep us from sinning Let no man think that God will leave that unpunished in us which he hath not pardoned in other that had not so many examples of punishment before them as are before us Let us feare to partake in their sinnes lest that we share also in their punishments for where sinneis framed in the Antecedent there punishment is inferred in the Consequent unlesse Gods mercy and mans penitency make a separation between the cause and the effect the beginnning and end And so I passe to the last of the wayes that at first I proposed whereby Gods name is taken in vaine to wit by cursing wherein I dare passe my word I will be very brief lest this discourse that at first was intended but a narrow entrance to bee passed through in the space of an houre should swell into a wide Ocean even not to be sailed over in the length of a Summers day Gods name is taken in vain by cursing There is a certaine multiplicity Doct. 4. severity of punishment attending all those that by cursing doe take Gods name in vain Because they transgresse against the precept of God in the Law Reason Exo. 22.28 Mat. 5.44 Rom. 12.14 Vse 1. Levit. 19.14 and the precepts of Christ in the Gospel Let us then men and brethren bee exhorted to suffer the consideration of this truth not onely to swim in our braines but also to sink into our hearts that wee bee carefull to prevent this hideous sinne this uncharitable sin that so directly aimes at mans hurt and at Gods prerogative Royall Vengeance is mine Deut. 32.35 and I will repay it Deut. 32.35 The main motives that may preserve us from falling into and recover us from sinking in this sin are these two 1 The greatnesse of the sinne Two motives 2. The grievousnesse of the punishment due to and waiting on the same The greatnesse of the sin appeares because 1. The curser breaks the first Table touching God in taking his name in vain 1 The greatnesse of the sin hee hath no love or feare of God in him seeing he makes God the executioner of his lust and revenge Levit. 19.14 Lev. 19.14 2. The curser breakes the second Table touching man Jam. 3.9 seeing hee discovers the inward malice of his heart by the outward pollution of his hell-hatched words in defiring his ruine