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heart_n	good_a	speak_v	treasure_n	5,167	5	10.0843	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27449	Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault.	Berault, Peter.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1956; ESTC R30222	55,952	193

first are the Words of my Text Above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation Consider this Text seriously I think it should be like the Fingers that came forth and wrote upon the Wall that dreadful Sentence that changed the Countenance of a King and made his Knees smite together Above all things that is above all other Vices avoid Swearing but let your yea be yea and your nay nay that is accustom your selves to short and plain Affirmations and Negations lest you fall into condemnation that is lest for these things the Judge of Heaven and Earth should pass a Sentence of Condemnation to Hell upon you O Men dare ye then from henceforth commit such a hainous Sin as Swearing seeing it will bring you under God's Judgment and Condemnation Did you never see a poor Malefactor Tryed at the Assizes and observe how his Face grows pale how his Legs Tremble and how Death displayes his Colours in his Cheeks when Sentence is given upon him But what is that to God's Condemnation What is a Gallows to Hell The other Text is this the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain Now what does God mean when he saith he will not hold him guiltless The meaning is plain that is his Swearings and prophane Oaths shall be reckoned to him and he shall be bound to Answer God for them The last Reason which obliges you to avoid Swearing and prophane Oaths is that the custom of vain and prophane Oaths is as plain a discovery of an unregenerate Soul as any in the World This is a sure sign ye are none of God's Children nor have any thing to do with his Heavenly Promises For by this the Scripture distinguishes the State of Saints and Sinners This Fruit of the Tongue plainly shews what the Tree is that bears it The vile Person saith the Prophet Isaiah will speak of villany and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks Loquere ut te videam speak that I may see what you are What is in the Heart is vented by the Tongue when the Treasures of Grace are in the Hearts then good and Holy Words will be in the Lips The Mouth of the Righteous saith David speaks Wisdom By thy words saith Christ thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be Condemned We use to say such Witnesses Hanged a Man the meaning is the Evidence they gave did Cast and Condemn him If the words do Evidence the State of the Soul what a wofull State these Souls must needs be in whose Mouths overflow with Swearing profane Words and Curses How many Witnesses will be brought in to cast them in the great day Wherefore that ye may not fall into such a misfortune avoid vain Swearing and Profane Oaths whereby God is so highly offended which he has punish'd with both temporal and spiritual Plagues which are a plain discovery of an unregenerate Soul and which God will bring to condemnation And that ye may leave that bad and ugly custom wherein there is neither profit nor pleasure consider that if every idle word that Men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment how much more then for immodest obscene filthy Words profane Oaths and Bloody Blasphemies Before ye speak weigh and ponder your words beg of God to guide your Tongues and every day say with David set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep thou the door of my lips Labour to get your hearts cleansed and purified make the tree good and then his fruit will be good also A holy heart will produce holy words Consider also that no Man is the better lookt upon for his filthy words and vain bloody profane Oaths but on the contrary loses his esteem among all them that have any sense or virtue and even among them that are wicked and great Swearers too If there was any punishment put in Execution upon them that Swear and take the Sacred Name of God in vain they would certainly forbear that horrid and unprofitable Sin For I observed when I was in Holland that because there was so much Mony to be payed by every one that did Swear I never heard there any Man taking the Name of God in vain though I were several times in the Company of above Forty Men together drinking in Taverns and Coffee-houses And I took notice also in the Ships where I have served that when the Captain ordered the Collar which is a piece of wood of about Fifty Pounds weight to be worn by the Sea-men that were heard Swearing then no Profane Oath was scarce heard that day If a small parcel of Mony to be put in a box and given to the Poor in Holland and if the pain and shame of wearing a Collar in the Ships be able to make Men abstain from Swearing why shall not the punishment of Hell and of an eternal Damnation threatned to them that take God's Name in vain have such a Power over them Certainly they do not believe such a thing For if they were convinced of that Truth or that there is an avenging God or that their Souls are Immortal or that the Holy Scripture was certainly revealed of God and the Threatnings therein contained against Swearers shall be put in Execution in the great and fearful day of Judgment without doubt they would hereafter forbear from Swearing and taking God's Name in vain And that they may be perswaded of these Truths I intend to publish three other Sermons the first to God's Existence the second of the Immortality of our Souls and the third of the certainty of the holy Scriptures for the Reason why Men do continue in their Sins is because they are not utterly and fully convinced of these important and necessary Truths Above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation The End of the Second Sermon Third Sermon against Drunkeness Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess Ephes 5. 16. THE Sparthans brought their Children to loath Wine by shewing them a Drunkard whom they gazed at as a Monster and Tertullian saith of the Primitive Christians they drank no more than was sufficient for temperate Men they did so eat and drink as those that remembred they ought to pray afterwards But now amongst those that profess Christianity how ordinarily is this Sin committed but especially by Sea-men Some of them have gone aboard drunk and laid the foundation of their Voyage in that Sin and though they knew not whether they should ever see again the Land of their Nativity yet this was the farewel they took this was their preparation and so in their return notwithstanding the terrible and astonishing works of the