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A hopefull way to cure, that horrid sinne of svvearing. Or an helpe to save swearers, if willing to be saved: being an offer or message from him, whom they so daringly, and audatiously provoke. Also a curb against cursing.
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Younge, Richard.
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Wing Y160AB; Thomason E24_2; ESTC R211952
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guesse that you are not For doth not our Saviour tell us also That out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak eth Mat. 12.34 and that we shall know men by their fruits That every good tree bringeth forth good fruit and a corrupt tree evill fruit Mat. 7.16.17.20 and 12.33 Doth not St. Iames say If any man among you seemeth to be religious and brideleth not his tongue that man deceiveth himselfe and his religion is vaine Iames 1.16 You may flatter your selfe but evill speaking discovers an evill heart A corrupt streame is an ill signe of a pure fountaine neither shall you perswade me that good wine is in the vessell when only vinigar comes forth if the words be hellish and prophane we may flatly conclude that the heart also is wicked If you blessed God with your soule you would not blaspheme him with your tongue Yea could you rappe out oaths in such a manner as you doe if your conscience were not seared and your heart hardned and you past felling and destitute of all grace No it s impossible for the least sparke of the true feare of God in your heart would be as a bridle to curbe in this unruly evill of the tongue that it should not run so at randum nor burst out either into wicked or vaine swearing If yee love me saith our Saviour keep my commandements Iohn 14.15 Now what sin will a man leave for Christs sake if he will not leave this which is every way unprofitable and many wayes hurtfull And what though the naturall man who wants both the eye of faith and the light of Gods word and spirit can perceive nothing amisse in his owne heart yet one that is spirituall may 1 Cor. 2.14.15 The disease appeares not many times to the Patient himselfe yet when he talkes idly the Phisutian knowes he is even sick to death But what needs all this when you fret and spurne against the good word of God and swell against your reprehender when with Balam and Herod you grudge to be stayed in the way to death and fly'upon those who oppose your perdition which is an infallible argument that you are utterly destitute of the feare of God Yea he that will not heare of his faults is not capable of amendment Yea to be exasperated with good counsell and in stead of penetency to breake into choller when fury sparkles in those eyes which should gush out with water it is an evident signe of one that shall perish Pro. 29 1 Read the words and tremble a man that heardneth his necke being of ten reproved shall suddainly be destroyed that without remedy see more Pro. 1.24.25.26 to 33. Whence it is the Prophet tells Amazia I know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my councell 2 Chro. 25.16.20 and that the Holy ghost speaking of Elyes sonnes saith that they would not hearken unto uor obey the voice of their father because the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2.25 That sin is past al cure which strives against the cure Hearbs that are worse for warering Trees that are lesse fruitfull for dunging and pruning are to be rooted out or hewen downe Even salvation it selfe will not save those that spill the potion and fling away the plaster When God would have cured Babylon and she would not be cured then she is given up to destruction without further warning Wherefore boast what you will of a good heart yea sweare also that you feare God I know and am assured that you have not the feare of God before your eyes as the Apostle speaking of unbeleevers phraseth it Rom. 3.18 For as St Iohn saith If any man love the world the love of God is not in him 1 Iohn 2 15 so if any man love swearing or cursing the feare of God is not in him for it cannot be that the true feare of God and ordinary swearing cursing should dwel together in one man Yea dead are they while they live that live in this sin Eph. 1 2 3 Col. 2.13 Math. 8.22 Iames 2.17 2 Cor. 4.3 4.2 Thes 2 9.10 Nor ought beleevers by the rule of Gods word to eate or keepe company with such 2 Thesalo 3.6.14 Ephes 5.5.7 1 Cor. 5.11 1 Tim. 1.10 But of this sinne see more In Mr. Downames Treatise of swearing Mr. Dod upon the third commandement A late treatise called Sinne Stigmatized Out of which three bookes I have improved my owne tallent for the honour of the giver and profit of the hearers And as touching Puritanisme have but patience and your selfe shall confesse that those are not puritanes who are generally so reputed but their accusers viz. Papists Prophaine Ignorant and meere civill men prelaticall Arminian Scandalous and Malignant Ministers who are pleased either out of Ignorance or malice to tearme and repute them so Yea I will make it so plaine by Gods assistance that every one present shall acknowledge the religious to be innocent and there accusers to be guilty of the same things which you and the world blinded in judgement judge of them and most unjustly lay to their charge whether you meane by a puritane One Who is pure in his owne eyes Or who saies and does not seemes and is not Or who under a shew of religion cosens the world Or who stumbles at strawes and leapes over blocks Or who is over ridged and sensorious Or who is singular in his judgemment and practise Or who is unquiet and contentious amongst his neighbours For this is the case the men of the world thinke all that are scrupelous and conscionable to be puritanes but they know upon good ground from Gods word all who barke out this odious name to bee indeed ranke Puritanes and grosse Hypocrites and that they are in the condition of blind persons who rushing one upon another in the way either complaines of the others blindnesse but neither of his owne for for the most part he alone that is guilty will be casting these stones complain of anothers unsavory breath when his lungs only are corrupt Thus the Author goes one in the conference tell he hath compleated his promise and answered all the usual questions in controversie betweeen the Word and the World as every one shall find that reads the cure of Misprision Postscript YOu that feare God or have any bowells of compassion towards the precious soules of those poore ignorant men women and children whom you heare to sweare and curse as doggs barke that is not more of curstnes then out of custome wish them to read these few pages at least the first 5. or 6. which I thought fit to print even as I found it in the beginning of a Manuscript And in case you perceive good come of it give of them to your friends and neighbours At Iames Crumps a Booke-binder in Little Bartholmewes Well yard you may have as many Gratis as you shall be pleased to distribute Finis Imprimatur J. Downam Errata Pag. I under the title for postcript read postscript Pag. 1. l. 1. 22 23. 25. for swaring r. swearing Pag 1. l. 28. for kil read kill therfore he must continue it pag. 3 l. 30. for unpardonable r. rests unpardonable Pag. 4. leave out the 5. last lines p. 4. l. 21 for there faith 1. their faith or ofter better security p. 5.1.19 for well they deserve it r. well they deserve it pag 6. l. 26. for heirers r. heires
stubbornenesse of mine owne heart so adding drunkenesse to thirst the Lord will not be mercifull unto him but the wrath of the Lord and his jelousie shall smoake against that man and every curse that is written in his booke shall light upon him and the Lord shall put out his name from under Heaven c. Doth not our Savour himselfe say that the gate of heaven is so straight that few finde it Mat. 7.13.14 and will he not at his comming to judgement aswell say to the disobedient depart from me ye cursed as to the obedient come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome c. yes they are his owne words Mat. 25 34.41 In fine he that beleeveth in the sonne hath everlasting life but he that obeyeth not the sunne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Iohn 3.36 And in all reason if he punished Davids Adultery and Murther so sharpely a man after his owne heart yea and that after his sinne was remitted what will he doe to his enemies but send them to that devowring fire that everlasting burning Isay 33.14 If Gods owne children who are as neere and deare to him as the aple of his eye or the signet on his right hand Zach. 2.8 Duet 32.10 Suffer so many and greivious afflictions here what shall his adversaries suffer in hell If Sampson be thus punished shall the Philistems escape Yea if judgement begin at the house God what shall their end be that obeay not the Gospel 1 Pet. 4.17 If many shall seeke to enter in at the straight gate and shall not be able how shall they be able who seeke not at all Luke 13.24 If the righteous shall scarcely be saved when shall the ungodly and sinner appeaâ—e as the Scripture speakes 1 Pet. 4.18 So that mercy iâ— for vessells of mercy Mat. 5. and not for vessells of wrath And what though Christ in the Gospell hath made many large and precious promises therâ— are none so generall which are not limitted with the condition of faith and the fruit thereof unfained repentance And each of them are so tyed entailed that none can lay claim to them but true beleevers who repent and turne from all their sinnes to serve him in holynesse without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 Isay 59 20. So that he must forsake hiâ— sinnes that will have God to forgive them 1 Sam. 2.30 Marke 16.16 Heb. 5.9 Neither was it ever heard that any one ascended into heaven without going up the staires oâ— obedience and good workes that any have attained unto everlasting life without faith repentance and sanctification for even the theife upon the crosse which you ignorantly aleadge beleeved in Christ and shewed the fruits of his faith in acknowledging his owne sinne reproving his fellow in confessing our Saviour Christ even then when his Apostles denied anâ— forsooke him in calling upon his name desiring and confidently trusting by his meanes and merrits to have everlasting life Neither doth his example make any whit for the comfort oâ— procrastinators for he is a foole that makes an ordinary rule of an extraordinary example and such is this of the theifes convertion for it was a miracle Not unlike the Suns standing still in Ioshuas time or its going backe in the dayes of Hezekiah Or rather those other miracleâ— of the graves opening the dead arising the vaile of the temple renting the light of the Sunne failing c. which Christ wrought at the same time with the glory whereof our Saviour would honour the ignominy of his Crosse Besides hee was then to take his leave of the world and to enter into his glory and we know it is usuall with Princes to save some hainous malefactors at their coronation when they enter upon their Kingdomes in tryumph which they are never knowne to doe afterward Besides the Scripture speakes of another even his fellow in that very place and at that very instant which was damned There was one saith St. Austine converted at the last hower that none might dispair there was buâ— one that none should presume Yet every drunken beast swearing Athiest can wrest this scripture to their owne distruction and decoct the mercy of God in pardoning him into ranckâ— poyson taking the same for an encouragement and thinkeing it a sufficient warrant for them to continue in their evill and vicious courses Not once taking notice of other Scriptures which shew that millions who had lesse iniquity have found lesse mercy And that whosoever Christ saveth with his blood he sanctifieth with his spirit and in whom his death taken takes away the guilt and punishment of sinne it is also effectuall for the mortifying of sinne as is plaine by Rom. 6.5 6. Titus 2.14 Ephes 1.4 and many the like Yea the Lord bindeth it with an oath that whomsoever he redeemeth out of the hands of their spirituall enemies they shall worship him in holynesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of their life Luk. 1.70 to 76. Other Scriptures to this purpose are many see only Titus 2.12 1 Pet. 2 24. But to make it yet more cleare what else did thy vow in baptisme which is a seale of the Covenant importe but that there are Articles conditions viz. Certain duties on thy part to be performed as well as promises on Gods part to be fullfiled A Sacrament is a sealing of a league with Covenants between party and party saith Parreus Now as God hath covenanted and bound himselfe by his word and seale to remit thee thy sinnes adopt and regenerate thee his childe give thee the Kingdome of heaven and everlasting life by and for his sons sake so thou diddest for thy part bind thy selfe by Covenant promise and vow that thou wouldest forsake the Divell and all his workes constantly beleeve Gods holy word and obediently keepe his commandements the better thereby to expresse thy thankefulnesse towards him for so great a benefit 1 Pet. 4.1 2 3. Psal 116.12 13.14 And we know that in-Covenants and Indentures if the conditions be not kept the Obligation is not in force Whereby many even Magus like after the water of Baptisme goe to the fire of hell Yea except we repent and beleeve the Gospell we are perjured and that holy Sacrament together with the offer of grace and in stead of sealing to us our salvation will be an obligation under our hand and seale against us and so prove a seale of our greater condemnation Alasse ignorant Worldlings who will beleeve nothing which comes not within the compasse of their five sences thinke that because God strikes not he mindes not Psal 50.21 Because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe evill as Solomon speakes Eccles 8.11 Because God doth not forthwith strike one dead with a Thunder Bolte and raine downe fier and brimestone upon another and cause the earth to swallow downe a