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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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.

the thing was true as sure as the Lord liveth the certainty of whose living no rational man will in the least question And in 2 Cor. 1.18 where the Apostle Paul doth affirm that his preaching to the Corinthians was not Yea and Nay but Yea and Amen And to beget them to a belief of the truth of what he said herein he tells them it is true as sure as the Lord is true Now I shall leave it to the judgment of the Rational to determine whether the Apostle Paul did swear by the Lord any more than Henry Den did swear by Henry Adis as aforesaid 3. Of an Oath But thirdly Had Henry Den told Henry Adis that such a thing had been true and had asserted the truth of it by the Lord by Heaven by Earth by Jerusalem by his Head or by what else you will suppose this Henry Den and Henry Adis both may positively affirm to be Swearing And this I can own to be Swearing although I do not assert the Swearing by Heaven Earth Jerusalem or the Head to be lawful Oaths no nor swearing by God neither under a Gospel-dispensation I say it is the term By that maketh the Asseveration or thing severed singled out set apart or asserted to become an Oath I desire to be held excused ●f I give not for want of Humane Learning those proper distinctions and denominations to words as possibly they may deserve in such or such places for I profess ingenuously I know not the difference between a Particle as it is so called nor where or in what places they are to stand or how or when they are to be so called only I shall desire for Information-sake to impart what in mercy is made out to me for the Information and Reformation of others therefore take my honest down-right meaning and the Lord make it useful I say that which binds up all is the term By which By is that which maketh an Assertion to become an Oath for it is the Affirmation of a thing not yet believed to be a truth by the certainty of that which is a truth and is set apart chosen out severed or asserted and by the certainty of it to prove the certainty of that which is not yet believed to be true or certain as aforesaid For to say the Lord liveth is not to swear by the living Lord or by the Lord that liveth nor to say as true as the Lord liveth cannot be swearing by the Lord that is true who liveth but if I say By the Lord that liveth then I swear So that to name God Heaven Earth or Jerusalem is nor can be Swearing until I use the term By as aforesaid And this thou sayest thy self is Swearing in pag. 4. where thou speakest of the universality of Oaths in which thou sayest must be considered both persons places and times and in the consideration of persons thou bringest us Gen. 22.16 where the Lord sweareth to Abraham saying By my Self have I sworn saith the Lord That in blessing I will blesse thee and in Psal 89.35 Once have I sworn by my Holinesse that I will not lye unto David And the Angel's swearing in Revel 10.5 6. who lifted up his hands to Heaven and said not as sure as the Lord liveth or I call the Lord that liveth to record or to witnesse but his swearing was on this wise The Angel lifted up his hand to Heaven and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever And in Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve Him and shalt swear by his Name To Swear then is to Assert by God who only is able to Assist or enable to what is Promised therefore it is unlawful to Swear BY any other Creature or Thing because that Creature is unable to enable the Creature And 2dly by so doing the Creature is set up in the Place of the all-Powerful God the Party so Swearing becomes an Idolater And thou also affirmest this to be Swearing by a third Testimony as from the Prophets as Isa 65.16 And he that sweareth in the Earth shall swear by the God of Truth And Heb. 6.16 Men verily swear by the Greater So that to swear is to assert by a party or thing severed singled out or set apart And of Oaths there are several kinds 1. An Oath of Promise 2. An Oath of Affirmation or Testimony 3. An Oath of Abjuration to renounce or forswear 4. An Oath of Execration or Cursing 1. All Promisary Oaths are when persons do vow covenant or promise and bind the performance thereof by or under an Oath as Josh 2.12 Now therefore I pray you swear unto me by the Lord since I have shewed you kindness that ye will also shew kindness unto my fathers house and give me a true token 2. An Oath of Affirmation or Testimony to Confirm a Truth by way of Evidence or Witness-bearing to end Controversies Heb. 6.16 For men verily Swear by the greater and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of all strife 3. An Oath of Abjuration Renouncing or Forswearing a thing 2 Sam. 3.35 And when all the People came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day David sware saying So do God to me and more also if I taste bread or ought else till the Sun be down 4. An Oath of Execration or Cursing Acts. 23.12 14 21. But do not thou yield un●o them for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men which have bound themselves with an Oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him and now are they ready l●oking for a Promise from thee And although here is a New Testament Proof for this Oa●h of Execration yet it is to be noted that it was made by wicked men and therefore no Example for Gospel Disciples to walk by for 't is the Requirement of the Lord by his Spirit that we Regulate according to the Gospel which saith Swear not and Swear not at all Matth. 5.35 Jam. 5.12 And this we are required that we regulate our Conversation as becometh the Gospel Phil. 1.27 Now if we have not a clear direction in the Gospel to regulate our Conversation by and in special in such a principal Part of it as this is that may so much concern the Glory of God then we must conclude that we are directed to an insufficient and to an indirect Rule the which to say I dare not For I do really believe him to be faithful who hath by his Spirit in his Servant directed to that Rule and therefore I am of this perswasion ●hat the Rule is a direct Rule and a true measure 2 Cor. 10.12 and that those Requirements in Ma●th 5.34 and Jam. 5.12 are positive Directions Fourthly Of a Testimony Record or Witness Fourthly As to a Testimony Record or Witness I judge I need not say any thing to in this place because it is so fully distinguished in Pag. 8. to be of