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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27407	A true testimony concerning oaths & swearing &c. as also an answer to the subject matter contained in twelve arguments or reasons laid down in a sermon preached at Carlisle, Aug. 17, 1664 by Allan Smallwood ... to prove that our savior did not forbid all swearing : wherein is fully cleared the command of Christ and his apostle James swear not at all ... / by Ger. Benson.	Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.	1669 (1669)	Wing B1902; ESTC R23682	37,196	48

in part should be done away fo● true witness-bearing though without an Oath never did prejudice to any as Oaths and Swearing have done when the witness born before or after hath been false as daily experience doth testifie And what if some now as heretofore believe not the Command of Christ shall their unbelief make the Faith of God of none effect God forbid For seeing that true saying is asmuch or more than swearing and that Christ hath said That for every idle word men shall give an account in the day of Iudgment And that the Lyar as well as the false Swearer shall he shut out of the Kingdom of God Therefore every one that feareth the Lord for thereafter as a man feareth is Gods displeasure is as much bound by his Word as by an Oath and there being no more security to the Magistrate by an Oath than by true saying or witness-bearing neither benefit to our Neighbour Therefore if the same outward punishment were inflicted upon the Liar as false Swearer the difference in a short time would not be great because experience doth evidence That he that makes no conscience of his words will not matter to Swear falsly for Conscience sake to God And it may be believed That one reason why strife doth so much in these dayes abound amongst men notwithstanding that Oaths and Swearing abound is because that the true witness-bearing as it was before swearing was is not received in Judicial proceedings for want of an Oath and Swearing Again To say That Christ did forbid all Swearing because his Father would have it so is a better reason than any A. S. hath produced to the contrary But to proceed to A. S. his ninth Argument viz. Arg. 9. That our Saviour gave no new Moral Command And consequently did not prohibit that Swearing which long before had been Commanded by God Answ. The question in dispute is not Whether Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant did give any new Moral Command But Whether he forbad all Swearing to his Disciples which that he did his own words Mat. 5.34 Swear not at all do prove As for the word Moral it is a word of Art invented by the wisdom which is from below which is not subject to the Law of God For it 's evident That the Penmen of the Scriptures did never make use of that word Moral when they writ and declared the Testimony of God And therefore the Apostles Caveat in such things is useful Col. 2.8 Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of man after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ. For the Law of the new Covenant in Christ Jesus is Spiritual and Eternal not Moral and according to the Promise of God Ier. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 the commands thereof are by the Lord according to his Promise put into the mind and written in the heart of man written not with Ink but with the Spirit of the Living God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the heart 2 Cor. 3.3 And therefore is called the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.2 and the Law of Faith Rom. 3.27 and not Moral by way of excellency above the Law of the letter as the Scriptures do declare 2 Cor. 3. And Christ said unto his Disciples If ye love me keep my Commandments Joh. 14.15 And when he commanded them to go and teach all Nations c. They were to teach them to observe not the Law of Moses but all things whatsoever he had Commanded them Mat. 28.19 20. And in Iob. 14.26 He told them The Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father would send in his Name he should teach them all things and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them And Ioh. 16.12 13. Christ told them He had yet many things to say unto them but they could not then bear them Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all Truth c. So that Christ did not send them to the Law called Moral for to be their guide written in tables of stone but promised to send the Spirit of Truth to guide them into all Truth and to shew them things to come So that although Christians do and are to practise and observe many of those things which were commanded in the Law as being originally of God of which the Law had a shadow but not the substance Heb. 10.1 yet they do not observe them because they find them to have been Commanded in the Law of Moses but as they are Commands of Christ in the new Covenant written in the heart and put into the mind by the Spirit of the Lord that quickneth and giveth Life and power to do thereafter Heb. 8.10 Rom. 10.8 For now the Righteousness of God without the Law is manifested being witnessed both by the Law and the Prophets Even the Righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Iesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe Rom. 3.21 22. But the Law is not of Faith neither ever was any Oath or Swearing of the Law of Faith as true witness-bearing was and is So that by the works of the Law which is not of Faith no man is or can be Justified but by Faith without the deeds of the Law a man is Justified according to Rom. 3.28 3.20 And now those things which were commanded in the Law which were Eternal as the Love of God c. was Eternal not Moral of which the Law engraven in stone had a shadow although they continue under the Gospel yet as was said They are not the works of the Law which made nothing perfect but the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 23. and therefore are perfect as Love Joy Peace long-Suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law But against Swearing there is a Law as before is proved So that which was impossible to the Law in regard of the weakness of the flesh to do God sending his Son for sin condemned sin in the flesh That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit the law and power of an endless life For as before is said Swearing was never any part of the Law Eternal or of Faith therefore the taking of it away was no addition to or substraction from the Law Eternal or of Faith And although the Lord had limitted Moses and in him all others from adding unto and taking from what was then written in the Law yet he had not limited himself to what he had then given in command to Israel not to the Gentiles and but for a time until the Seed should come Gal. 3.19 and so was temporary And it being acknowledged by A.S. that Oaths are no Gospel Ordinance and before proved that Christ did abolish abrogate disannul and take away the Law yea that Law which