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heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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A57303	The good old way and truth which the ancient Christians many ages and generations ago witnessed unto in the world from age to age, even from the dayes of Christ unto this very time, wherein the same doctrine, life and practice is witnessed unto by us who are in contempt called Quakers, through many tribulations, which our ancestors, the most ancient and true Christians that ever were upon the earth, sealed unto, with the loss of their lives and liberties, by which, in short, is fully manifested, in what is treated of herein, that the doctrine of the Quakers, in denying to swear any oath, and their refusing to pay tythes, and many other things they practise, was the doctrine and practise of the most famous and renowned Christians, both testified of in the Scriptures of truth, and the books of martyrs : also, a brief discovery of the ground and rise and tythes, manifesting them no Gospel-maintenance, but was testified against by the best and most ancient Christians many ages ago / written by ... Ambros Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.; R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1483; ESTC R17133	29,214	42

calls himself thy Vicar on Earth hath broken both these Commandments for he maketh a Law to compel men to Swear and by his Law he teacheth that for a man to save his life may forswear and Lye and so Lord through comfort of him and his Laws the people need readeth to Swear or Lye nay oft-times to forswear themselves Lord here is little truth c. Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 527. Sixthly It is one of John Wickliffs Articles whose Works were as much esteemed by the Protestants in England and Bohemia as dispised by the Papists and their Clergy having his bones taken up and burnt forty one years after his decease and his Books were also burned by the Papists and this Article was condemned with many other by the Counsel of Constance That all Oaths which be made for any Contract or civil Bargain between man and man be unlawfull John Hus and Jerome of Prague were condemned for holding of John Wickliff's opinions Ex Actis Consilij Con. stat vol. 1. fol. 606. Seventhly Walter Brute a Teacher among the People of God in the Age of Scorners called The Devil's Servant or Lollard against whom the Pope and King Richard the second and the then ungodly Bishops made so much ado to have the Name of Truth extinguished and the Professors thereof cut off This is Walter 's Testmony concerning Oathes I believe and obey the Doctrine of Almighty God and my Master Jesus Christ which teacheth that Christian men in the affirmation of 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 Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And as concerning Oathes he saith It hath been said of old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform those things unto the Lord thou knowest But I say unto you thou shalt not Swear at all neither by Heaven nor by the Earth but let your communication be yea yea and nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil Therefore as the Perfection of the ancient men of the old Testament was not to forswear themselves so the Perfection of a Christian man is not to Swear at all because he is so commanded of Christ whose Commands in no wise must be broken although the City of Rome is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 653. Rich. 2d's days Eightly Chrysostom who was a Bishop of Constantinople in commendation of whom much is said in the Ecclesiastical History he blameth them greatly that brought forth a Book to swear upon charging his Clerks that in no wise they constrained any body to Swear whether they think a man sweareth true or false saying It is a sin to Swear well c. Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 701 702. Ninethly Jerome who was an ancient Father and Teacher in the Church whom all the Protestants owned upon that place Matth. 5. 37. and James 5. 12. these were his words It was permitted under the Law to the Jews as being tender and as it were Infants that they might offer Sacrifices to God lest they should sacrifice to Idols so they might swear by God not that it was rightfull so to do but because it was better to swear by God then by false gods and Devils but the great Evangelist admits not of an Oath since every true saying is equal thereunto c. Tenthly In like manner doth Theophilist an ancient Father of the Church whom the Protestants own and have often cited his Doctrine for proof upon the place in controversie saith Learn hence that under the Law it was not evil for one to Swear but since the coming of Christ it is evil as is Circumcision and in sum what ever is judicial for it may become a child to suck but not a man Eleventh And Ambross saith upon Psalm 110. Let him then Swear that cannot repent of his Oath and a little after the said Ambross saith Do not immitate him in swearing whom you cannot immitate in following and indeed the principle solution given by him is Swear not at all Twelfth Many other Saints and Martyrs I might instance at large both in Henry the fourth and Henry the sixth's days whereof some were burned some cruelly handled who said It was not lawfull to Swear in private Cases Vol. 1. pag. 896. Hen. 6. days Thirteenth In Henry the fourth dayes it is said That neither the Pope nor Prelates neither any Ordinary can compel any man to swear by the Bible-book or any Creature of God for saith a Master of Divinity It is not lawfull either to give or to take any Oath upon a Book for every Book saith he is nothing else but divers Creatures of which it is made Therefore to swear upon a Book is to swear by Creatures and this swearing is ever unlawfull Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 701. It would melt any tender heart to hear of the Cruelties and Tortures which that Blood-thirsty spirit invented to destroy the Bodies of those who kept the Commands of Christ and could not be forced to swear by all the Cruelties that the power of darkness either in Henry the fourth's dayes Henry the sixth's dayes Richard the seconds or Queen Maries dayes could invent to torment their Bodies withal which was not a few as may be seen upon record at this day in the first second and third Volums of the Books of Martyrs But they who loved Christ and kept his Commands in those dayes had power and strength given them to endure what ever the Lord suffered wicked hands to inflict upon them by which their Faith and Patience was fully tried and manifested but after the Iniquities of their Adversaries were full the Lord brought swift and fore destruction upon them divers manner of wayes as a just reward of their Blood and Cruelty as may be read at large in the latter end of the said Books For God in every Age shewed his severe wrath against the Spirit of Persecution about Worship and Sacrifice unto him Gen. 3. even from the dayes of wicked Cain unto this hour that spirit is accursed and drove out from the presence of the God of Israel where ever it appeareth at this day even as it was in the dayes of Pharaoh Saul Nebuchadnezer Herod Pilate and all the Chief Priests and after them the wicked Emperors and Kings and after them the divers Popes and their Bloodthirstly Rabble of Clergy and all other under what Name or Form soever at this day where that spirit of Persecution yet remains the Curse and Vengeance of the Almighty doth pursue it where ever it goes though God suffer long as he did Pharaoh and the rest to vex Israel till their iniquities was full even so the Lord in these latter Ages hath suffered many to act much violence and wickedness against his Heritage for their obedience