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A39572	One antidote more, against that provoking sin of swearing, by reason of which this land now mourneth given forth from under the burden of the oppressed seed of God, by way of reply both to Henry Den's epistle about the lawfulness, antiquity, and universality of an oath, and his answers to the Quakers objections against it, recommended (by him) to all the prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint, rather then the violation of their consciences : and also to Jeremiah Ives his printed plea for swearing, entitituled, The great case of conscience opened, &c. about the lawfulness or unlawfulness of swearing, which said reply to these two opposers of the truth, as it is in Jesus, is recommended not onely to all the prisons in this city and nation, and to all such real Christians, as chuse restraint rather then the violation of their consciences, but also, to all such nominal Christians out of prison, as, rather then restrain, chuse to purchase their earthly liberties by swearing, to the violation of the command of Christ, who saith, Mat. 5.33, swaer not at all. Jam. 5.12, above all things my brethren swear not / by Samuel Fisher ...	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1054; ESTC R5750	69,157	84

Lay the●… thine hand upon the Book touching the holy Gospel of God and take thy Charge Then said William I u●…derstand that the holy Gospel of God may not be touched with mans hands Walter Bruce in his Answer concerning Swearing saith I believe and obey the Doctrine of Almighty God and my Master Iesus Christ which teacheth that Christian men in affirmation of a Truth should pass the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees of the old Testament or else he excludeth them from the Kingdom of Heaven for he saith Unless your Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And as concerning Oaths he saith It hath been said to them of old time Thou shalt not for swear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord what thou vowest But I say Thou shalt not swear at all but let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever shall be more then this proceedeth of evil Therefore saith he as the perfection of the antient men of the Old Testament was not to for swear themselves so the perfection of Christian men is not to swear at all because they are commanded of Christ whose commands in no case must be broken Although that the City of Rome is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ Likewise in Queen Maryes dayes in the fourth Examination of one Elizabeth Young before the Bishop of London Docter Martin and others See Fox 2d Vol. pag. 1874. D. Martin said She hath a certain spirit of the Anabaptists for she refuseth to swear upon the four Evangelists before the Iudge for I my self and Mr. Hussy have had her before us four times but we cannot bring her to swear c. Then said the Bishop Wilt thou not swear before a Iudge that is the right trade of the Anabaptists * Eliz. I will not swear that this hand is mine No said the Bishop and why Eliz. Christ saith Whatsoever is more then yea yea or nay nay it cometh of evil Then said Cholmly Twenty pound it is a man in womans clothes Twenty pound it is a man Eliz. I am a woman Bishop Swear her upon a Booke seeing it is but a Question asked Then Doctor Cook brought her a Book commanding her to lay thereon her hand Eliz. No I will not swear for I know not what an Oath is but I say That I am a woman and have Children Bishop That know we not wherefore swear Cholmly Thou ill-favoured Whore lay thy hand upon a Book I will lay on mine Eliz. So will not I mine D. Cook Swear before us whether thou be a man or a woman Eliz. If ye will not believe me then send for women into a secret place and I will be tryd Then Cholmley called her ill-favoured Whore and the Bishop began to question her concerning the Sacrament of the Altar This last passage of those Popish Priests and Bishops I was the more free to relate here because it is so resembled to the life or rather to the death by that light unsavory deportment of some in these days who when they should reprove or punish at discountenance rather then i●…tate that leud demeanour of those Massy Ministers which is indeed unbecoming meaner men much more either Ministers or Magistrates when they sit in Iudicature do put sober Maids when they are brought before them about the Oath of Allegiance to swear whether they are Maids or not Thus we see these Dying Martyrs that lived and died in their measure of the Light of Christ to them then given whose Testimony one would think H. D. at least should take for divine evidence before the Consent of the Nations that are universally erred and universally alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them and because of the blindness of their hearts and are past feeling being in the Fall from the Light of God did enter their dissent in this case of Swearing and seal to their dissent from it with their blood What a miserable thing is it then that H. D. should now dissent from the holy Martyrs and Suffering Saints of God both now and of old in their Testimony against Popish Superstition and cleave to those customs as the Truth of Christ which excepting by the Saints are universally consented to by th●…Nations As he saies What Nation so barbarous but doth acknowledge the solemne and religious use of an Oath in calling Their God mark Their God to witness so may we not as wel say What Nation so barbarous but that it hath some false God to worship som false way of Worship What Nation so barbarom but it commits Idolatry and approves it as good What Nation so barbarous that will not fall down before some golden image or superstitious worship or other with approbation if the Kings and Powers think fit to impose it What Nation so barbarous but it will alter or for fear fore-go the Worsh●…p of their God and their Religion if their Rulers require it But what 's this to the few Saints Are they to fashion themselves therefore according to the Nations as H. D. would have them When Nebuchadnezar made a Decree for it all the people and Nations it is said and the Languages consented with their Princes Governors Captains Iudges Counsellors Treasurers Sheriffs and Rulers and fell down and worshipped the golden Image which Nebuchanezar the King set up excepting the three children of God Was truth therefore 〈◊〉 the Nations sides Was their consent to be taken for divine evidence or the dissent rather of those Three And when all the people forbore to pray to their God except Daniel because Darius forbad them was his dissenting and praying or their consenting to leave it off whether to be taken for divine evidence Judge O Saints Dan. 3. 3 7. 7. 7 c. Yet what doth it speak less then that the taking of an Oath quoth he is one of the dictates written and engraven in the heart of man by natures ●…inger seeing there's no Nation so barbarous but doth acknowledge the solemne and religious use of an Oath Hath he forgotten that the Nature and Image which the Nations are now universally degenerated and gone out into from that of God after which they were at first created is that of the Divel by which all till they be renewed and regenerated back unto the other are children of wrath Is he ignoran●… that the vail is over all hearts and the face of a covering and cloud of darkness is spread over all Nations till it be removed and destroied by the Light of him who is manifested a Light to the Nations and is come a light into the world into men in their own consciences by a measure of his Grace that he might destroy that nature image work and kingdom of the Divel who is the Ruler of the darkness of this world Is he ignorant that the world lies in wickedness 1 Joh 5. excepting those few who know

to the Law that was given by them but I say this is no President for them who are under the Doctrine of the Son himself who are not to go back so as to rebel against the Commands of the Son to follow the bare example of the servant Moses in whose hand the Law was given by the dispensation of Angels Moses was faithful in all his house the old Israel as a servant for a Typical Testimony of those true things that were to be spoken after Heb. 3. 5 6 but Christ who is counted worthy of more glory then Moses is the Son over his own House the true Israelites indeed in whom is no guile the Great and chief Shepherd over his own sheep who hear his voice on whom the servants and their Law i.e. Moses and the Angels have now nothing to do to impose read Heb. 1. 1 God who c. to the end We see how the Angels are inferior not only to the Son himself the heir of all but also as Ministers and servants unto the least of those who are heirs of Salvation and of all things both with in and through him whom yet H.D. represents as inferiour unto them as those who are but on Earth may be said to be to such as abide in Heaven For when he comes on to tell of the swearing of Christ from the Angels which Angels he ranks with God among such as swear in heaven Come we quoth he to the Earth as if the Being of Angels were onely in Heaven and the Being of Christ only upon earth whereas that very Angel he instances in as a President of Swearing to us is in that very place Rev. 10. recorded as standing no higher then on the Sea and Earth but Christ the Son were H. D. capable to read the mystery and riddle of it had he sworn in that Iohn 3. 5. where H. D. reckons on him as swearing on Earth might well have been rankt among the swearers in Heaven being at that very present in heaven as he saies himself ver. 13. The Son of man which is in Heaven But H. D. being yet where I once was with him among those who look for the Kingdom of Heaven which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} within men even those men that never enter it as Christ said to the Pharisees bidding his Disciples not to go forth to look for it among them who drew outwards with their Lo here and lo there in outward observations with which it comes not is so innocently ignorant where heaven is that though more darkly and diminutively then some others who open wider in some degree witness his two secret jerks at the Quaker and the Light within p. 5 and 8. of his perverting Paper he rather blasphemes the name of God and his Tabernacle i. e. the Light in which God dwells is and is known and those i. e. those Quakers who dwell with Christ in Heaven 3 The next Argument then ab Exemplo urg'd in proof of swearing now is that of Christ of whom H.D. and I. I. both do intimate it as their own conceit at least that he sware and therefore lawfully may we now think they In evidence of his thoughts that Christ sware H.D. alludes to Ioh. 3. 5. saying not positively but suppositively onely p. 3. If the Verily Verily of the Son of God and our Redeemer should not amount to so much as an Oath as some think yet is it more then a bare Yea and Nay In evidence of his more confident conceit and thoughts that Christ did sware and consequently that we now may I. I. cites and alludes to Matth. 26. 63. and that in two places of his prittle prattle des●…anting as emptily as amply on it in them both viz. p. 2 3. and again p. 7. whose words are here set down that he may have no just occasion to say I wrong him in my Answer A man may be solemnly sworn when he is adjured by another for to adjure quoth he in plain English is to charge one to swear or to exact an Oath therefore we read Mat. 26. 37. that the High-Priest Adjured Christ by the living God Beza more plainly reads it that the High-Priest charged him to swear by the living God if he were the Christ the Son of God So p. 7. Swearing was used by Christ himself Mat. 26. 36. the High-Priest adjures him by the living God or as it is in plain English he charged him to swear by the living God to tell him whether he was the Christ the Son of God 〈◊〉 which adjuration Iesus answers Thou saist or I am for so it is quoth he Mar. 14. 62. Now to answer to a matter when one is adjured by the living God though it were but Yea and Amen is sweating Rep. To H.D. I.I. I return two things 1. That if Christ had sworn in the two places and times respectively in which these two men seem to say he did yet it proves not the legality of it now to us 2. As 't is but doubtfully delivered by themselves so it 's utterly denyed by me that in th●…se cases phrases and places of their alledging Christ did swear at all First had Christs Verily Verily and his answering I am when the High-Priest asked charged him to tell him whether he were the Christ amounted to a formal Oath such as is now imposed and pleaded but it was far from it for there was no requiring to lay his hand on a Book and kiss it and swear by God and the Holy Evangelist and such like without which our present Iustic●… wil not own any man as giving sufficient satisfaction or confirmation to end the strife let us speak never so solemnly as in the sight of the living God but strive endlesly with us as suspitious persons from whom the King can't be secured unless we take the Oath in that old mee●…shadowy way yet this was all in the time of the Law and under it before Christ by his death had put an end to it For though in the last a●…d latest of the two Terms which these two men take their texts and talk from to prove Swearing lawful under the Gospel from Christs Example he was so nigh it as to be summon'd before the Priests in order to it yet he was not actually offered no●… had as yet actually suffered so not actually put an end to the Law which till he had he was under the Padagogy of it as the Iews were and therefore might use some such swearing as was used under the Law and that be no warrant neither for us now to swear who together with him that was once made under it himself are now redeemed from under the Law to under the Gospel and are now no more under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6. 14. The Heir himself under age differs not from a servant though Lord of all but is under Tutors and Governors c. so we when children were in bondage