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A75886	A fannatick's testimony against swearing; being an ansvver to four books, published by John Tombes, Jeremiah Ives, and Theophilus Brabourne; but more especially to that by Henry Den. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1661 (1661)	Wing A583; Thomason E1084_2; ESTC R36719	46,294	50

by thy thus endeavouring to perswade to a disobedience to Christ our Righteousness who is made of God unto us Wisdom whereby we speak Righteousness by whom only we are accepted Sanctification by and thorow whom we are chosen separated and set apart and Redemption whose Blood speaketh better things than that of Abel and by which only we are redeemed But to proceed Whereas thou tellest us in pag. 6. That we have together with the Consent of Nations and the Example of Prophets and Righteous men of old so also the Authority of Angels and God himself standing at our right hand as a warrant for Gospel-Disciples to swear To which I answer Though we are required to follow God as dear Children and to walk in love Eph. 5.1 To be holy 1 Pet. 1.16 and to be perfect Matth. 5.48 Yet we are no where required to follow him in swearing neither is it a sufficient Warrant for Gospel-Disciples to swear because God swore and if we immitate him we must immitate him in the manner and the end of his swearing Now when the Lord swore he swore by Himself and for me to swear by my self is to break a Law of Christ Matth. 5.34 Jam. 5.12 which saith Neither by thy Head nor this nor that nor by any other Oath Neither can I follow him in his end for I am not in such a capacity as he was or is in And if I swear by him I shall break a Law of Christ who saith Swear not at all And if we can neither follow our Pattern in the manner nor the end for my own part my shallow capacity is too narrow to apprehend why I should in such a case look upon such a Leader For to set a School-Boy a fair choice Copie yet if he must not follow his Master neither in a choice neat cutting his Letter evenly and distinctly keeping his line and distances points and stops how can he attain to fair writing and to what end is his Copie laid before him And as for Angels the sons daughters of men were never as I know of required to follow or immitate them neither if they were yet that swearing in Rev. 10.5 6. cannot possibly be immitated which is that one and only time that ever we hear of Angels swearing which was but One Angel and but Once Swearing and yet in pag. 6. thou tellest us most deceitfully that we have the Example of Angels as if it were a common course for Angels to swear By which the World shall see that the Spirit of the Lord spake a glorious truth in his servant Solomon Prov. 12.19 saying The Lip of Truth shall be established but a Lying lip is but for a moment For the Angels thou speakest of is but one and the Oath but one and that one Oath neither before nor under a Gospel Dispensation and therefore no Example for Gospel-Disciples to follow for the discovery of this one Angel's swearing is by John the Revelator who saw things to come And he that shall assert that that Angel did or hath yet sworn may as safely and as truly say The great Whore that Mother of Harlots and all Abominations is already brought down though we see her setting up daily for this Angel shall not swear till she be down for when he shall swear the end of his swearing shall be to let us know that time shall be no more Revel 10.6 and this thou urgest as a President for Gospel-Disciples to follow in doing which thou bringest it to as little purpose as Jeremiah Ives and thy self both bring and urge that Text of the Prophet Isa 65.16 thou in pag. 4. and he in pag. 9. though Jeremiah Ives be as palpably grosse as thy self therein for in pag. 7. he giveth it in as a third reason why those two Texts Matth. 5. and James 5. doth not forbid the use of all swearing as was commanded under the Law because saith he the Prophets when he can bring but one Prophet for his Prophets no more than thou Henry Den canst bring Angels for that One Angel as aforesaid and Prophesies as thou sayest in pag. 4. lin 21. when it is but this one Prophesie by that one Prophet thy Brother Jeremiah Ives produced Isa 65.16 So that here I must say to him as before I said to thee from Prov. 12.19 That a lying tongue is but for a moment Angels and Prophets as if there were multitudes when there is but one Angel and one Prophet produced and that Angel and that Prophet making but two in all and lesse there cannot be to make the plural number yet both cannot produce one good Warrant for what they are brought for the end why this supposed multitude of Angels and Prophets are brought for is but to perswade Gospel-Disciples to break that Law of Christ Matth. 5. and James 5. and when all is done when from this supposed Mountain of Swearing something remarkable is expected to be brought forth to speak metaphorically it amounteth not to so much as a Mouse for a Mouse is something in being but this is nothing at all as to Gospel-Disciples for it concerns not their Dispensation in the least for as to the Angel's swearing as is aforesaid it is not yet acted and when it shall be acted it shall set a period to time and it shall not be till time shall be no more as to men upon Earth So secondly When that Swearing shall be which is spoken of by that one Testimony that one Prophet called Prophets that also shall be fulfilled in such a juncture of time when the Gospel-Lamps of Profession shall be out for it shall be then when there shall be a New Heaven and a New Earth as saith Jeremiah Ives himself from that 56th Chapter of Isaiah ver 17. It shall be that when the New Heavens and the New Earth are created and when the former Heavens and the former Earth is forgotten So that if it shall be then and not till then that the former Earth and Heaven shall be forgotten that this swearing shall be that is here spoken of when they that swear shall swear by the God of Truth And if so then it is not in truth to be bound upon Gospel-Disciples And that ye may know distinctly When it shall be and Whom they shall be that shall swear as to the time when the Apostle Peter will tell us 2 Pet. 3.7 that by the same Power that made the Heavens and the Earth they are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of Iudgment and perdition of ungodly men And this is that which maketh some of us patiently wait for and yet haste unto the coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the Earth shall melt with fervent heat then it is when we according to his Promise look for a New Heaven and a New Earth wherein dwelleth RIGHTEOUSNESS or CHRIST who of God is made unto us Wisdom RIGHTEOUSNESS c. 1 Cor.

1.30 Who is the Lord our RIGHTEOUSNESSE Jerem. 23.6 And as to the persons who they shall be the 15th verse of the 65th Chapter tells us That they are such as shall be called by another name And this Evangelical Prophet distinguisheth them from the Gentiles whom we are for so saith he Isa 62.2 speaking of them And the Gentiles shall see Thy Righteousness and all Kings thy Glory Thou shalt also be a Crown of Glory in the Hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the Hand of thy God Thou shalt no more be termed FORSAKEN neither shall Thy LAND any more be termed DESOLATE For Thou shalt be called HEPHZI-BAH and Thy Land BEULAH for the Lord delighteth in Thee and thy Land shall be Married For as a young man marrieth a Virgin so shall thy sons marry thee speaking to the Land or Beulah And as a Bridegroom rejoyceth over his Bride so shall thy God rejoyce over thee And this the Lord hath sworn to by his Right hand and by the Arm of his Strength that he will perform it And this shall be when he will no more give their Corn nor their Wine for which they have laboured into the hands of their Enemies nor Strangers when they shall call them The Holy People The Redeemed of the Lord and their Land shall be called Sought out a City not forsaken So that it shall be scattered Israel that shall thus swear when his Name shall be changed and no more called Forsaken or cast out but when he shall be called Hephzi-bah and that after a Gospel-dispensation when the former Heavens and the former Earth shall be forgotten then also shall your Angel swear So that thine and thy Brother Jeremiah Ives great noise of Prophets and Angels being but two in all and one of them named as if he had sworn a great while since when in truth they shall neither of them swear till the Hand of the Lord shall be known towards his Servants and his Indignation towards his Enemies For behold the Lord will come with Fire and with his Chariots like a Whirlwind to render his Anger with Fury and his Rebuke with Flames of Fire for by Fire and by Sword shall the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many Isa 66.15 16. And now consider you great Humane Learned men to what end was this noise of Angels and Prophets thus proclaimed to stand at our right hand to perswade us to swear when upon examination they know not what they had to do there the which if it be thought they have I shall leave to the Rational to judge of whilst I take those other Prophets and Righteous men of old that stand with them into question also to hear whether they can perswade us to swear And upon examination I find that which they have to say to us is that they under that Legal Administration given out by the hand of Moses had Thus saith the Word of the Lord for their Warrant Deut. 8.13 Thou shalt Fear the Lord thy God and shalt Swear by his Name And now I must apply my self to Henry Den and Jeremiah Ives and let them know that these Prophets and Holy men of old were under the Levitical Priesthood but now the Priesthood is changed and as the Priesthood is changed so there must needs be also a change of the Law Heb. 7.12 So They were under Moses the Servant but We are under the Son who was counted worthy of more Honour than Moses in as much as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house and though Moses was faithful in his house as a Servant yet Christ as a Son over his OWN HOVSE whose house are we Heb. 3 3 5. And if the SON make us free then are we free indeed John 8.36 Therefore hear what the Son faith It hath been said to them of old time that were under my Servant Moses Thou shalt not forswear thy self c. But I say unto you I that am a Son over mine own House I who will make you free from Swearing and so or by that means free from Forswearing I say unto you Swear not at all So that we being under the Sons Priesthood we are freed from all things that were under the Servants Law and that by the Direction of that Spirit that was sent to lead into all Truth and to shew things to come and that from Acts 15.28 and Acts 21.26 For as touching the Gentiles which believe we have written and concluded that they observe no such things SAVE ONELY that they keep THEMSELVES from IDOLS and from BLOOD and from things STRANGLED and from FORNICATION And seeing it is so that thou and thy brother Jeremiah do so oppose our Master and his Houshold I shall in the Power streng●h and might of my Master examine your grounds as a faithful Sentinel before you farther passe our Guard lest if ye get within us and by flattery Dalilah-like you bereave us of our strength In page 7. Jerem. Ives tells of Voluntary Oaths the which I say with him were lawful under that dispensation but he bringeth nothing at all to prove them to be so now under a Gospel-dispensation but his own say-so onely so that all that he hath done in all the six pages before was but onely to fill up his two sheets and nothing at all to the purpose for our Lord Christ saith Mat. 5.34 It hath been said to them of old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self but I say unto you Swear not at all So that he needed not have gone so far about the wood to have proved that which was never denyed And had he but cut off something superfluous behind and this before one pair of sheets might have served both his and his brother Henry Dens Reasons to have lain in against Mat. 5.34 and James 5.12 And therefore I shall give a brief account of what he saith in opposition to Mat. 5.34 Swear not at all To which in page 7. he doth answer negatively that that Text cannot forbid the use of all Swearing that was lawful under the Law his first Reason is Because Christ himself Swore Mat. 26.63 when the Priest said I Adjure thee by the Living God that thou tell me whether thou be the Christ the Son of God And saith Jeremiah Ives Christ Sware in his saying thou hast said or I am To which I Answer That he did not Swear and that by Jeremiah Ives his own shewing for in p. 11. l. 1. We shall prove that it was the Priest Sware and not Christ for if the Apostle Paul did Swear when he Adjured 1 Thes 5.27 and not them he writ to then the Priest Sware if Adjuring be Swearing and not Christ when he was Adjured but saith Jeremiah Ives The Apostle Paul Sware when he Adjured and this he justifies in p. 11. l. 1. in l. 17. he thinketh it no presumption to arraign them for Ignorance that say the