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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22780	Englands deplorable condition shewing the common-wealths malady, by [brace] sacriledge, and want of duty in the people, contention, want of charity in the ministery, perjury, and want of truth in both : and its remedy by [brace] the peoples obedience and liberality, the ministers love and unity, both their repentance and fidelity : briefly declar'd in three treatises of [brace] the ministers patrimony and peoples duty, proposals to reconcile such as are for lordly episcopacy and un-ordain'd presbytery, for popular independancy and upstart antipædobaptistry, and against perjury : also, a petition for the Jews.	E. F.	1659 (1659)	Wing F18	72,509	69

the fervent Prayer of thy Souls Friend whosoever thou art that readest these Proposals so thou be Christs under what form soever thou livest A TREATISE AGAINST PERJURY SIth any way to take Gods Name in vain is such a sin that God will not hold the Offender guiltless a Com. 3 And God hath absolutely forbidden swearing falsly b Levi. 19. 12 Numb 30. 2 and Christ and his Apostle forbids us to swear at all c Mat. 5. 33. James 5. 12 not that he doth hereby abolish any part of his Fathers divine Worship commanded in the Law Deut. 6. 13. but to prevent all occasions of Perjury and rash and presumtuous swearing which is a sin sticks so fast unto the Soul that without a great deal of washing it will not out d Psal 51. 2 Therefore above all things St. James dehorts from it following herein the counsel of the Hebrew Rabbies e Maimon Trea. of Oathes c. 12 who advised their Scholars to beware of this sin more than of all transgressions it being one of the heavie iniquities greater than all iniquities St. Paul tells us the Law was made to condemn such f 1 Tim. 1. 9. 10 Zach 5. 1 c. Jer. 23. 10 for God sends his flying Roll against them which shall enter into the house of him that sweareth falsly to consume the stone and the timber of it yea the whole Land shall mourn because of it g Mal. 3. 5 Christ in Judgement will come near to such and be a swift witness against them g. he will make the Land desolate and deprive it of man and beast for swearing is the Captain in that cursed company of Vices Hos 4. 2 3. The Heathen accounted it a fearful sin and therefore the wisest of them allowed it not but in great and weighty matters as in the vindication of a mans fame or preservation of his own or friends life h. St. Augustine called Isecrat in St●baeo ser 25 it a dangerous Medicine never to be used but in a desperate Disease i August ser 28. de verbis Apost Deut. 28. 59 And indeed God threatens to make their plagues wonderful and of long continuance that fears not his great and glorious Name He knows not how to spare that People that persist in this sin k Jer. 5. 7 11 for they shall fall and not rise again l Amos 8. 14 he will surely cut them off m Zeph. 1. 4 5 Sith therefore punishment inseperably follows at the heels of this sin and lighteth either invisibly on the Souls of men as namely by Gods with-drawing his Grace and favours from them as from the ten Tribes that revolted from Davids house to whom they had sworn Allegiance for which they are said to rebel because of the Covenant they had made with David before the Lord n 1 King 12 19 compared with 2 Sam. 5. 3 although it be said the cause was from the Lord that Rehoboam hearkned not unto the people 2 Kings 12. 15. which was the ground of that Rebellion or else God permits Satan to blind and harden their hearts and to take full possession of their Souls as he dealt with Ananias and Sapphira who agreed together to tempt the Spirit of God and to lye unto the Holy Ghost o Acts 5. 1 c. So it happened to Judas the Traytor after he had perfidiously betrayed his Master Satan was permitted by Christ after the Sopp to enter into him and to fill him with all impiety and then to hurry him to the halter and Hell or else God suffers Satan to seduce them to beleeve those that speak lyes in hypocrisie and to credit his strong delusions which is a judgement threatned on all that receive not the love of the truth p 2 Thess 2. 9 10 11 And that are traytors truce-breakers lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a shew of godliness but denying the power of it q 2 Tim 3. 2 3 Or Lastly God departs from them for detaining the Truth in unrighteousness and so gives them over to a reprobate mind and vild affections r Rom. 1. 21 24 26 St. Augustine tells us That the life of the Body is the S●ul and the life of the Soul is God the Body dieth when the Soul departs but the Soul dieth when God depa●ts when the Body is wounded with a sword the Soul departs and doth not God depart when the Soul is wounded with perjury s Or else visibly August in Epist Iacob Gods Judgement falls on the persons estates goods or good-name of the prophaners of his Name or they fall into condemnation and pit of destruction before they have lived out half their dayes t James 5. ●● P●a 55. ●0 23 for God is jealous of his honour and will not suffer it to be prophaned by any man but will have it recovered by their conversion or confusion Peter Martyr from the Rabbins tells us That when the Law was given in Mount Sinai against Perjury Heaven and Earth shook trembling at so horrible a crime u Martyr loc Com clas 2. c. 7 Cum in Sinai darentur tabulae statim ut lata lex est de perjurio totue orbis est concussus for to prophane Gods Name is the proper dialect of the damned in Hell who speak as the Devil gives them utterance their tongues being set on fire of Hell and fearful without repentance will their doom be w Rev. 16. 11. Mat. 5. 37 James 3. 6 Psal 109. 27 God is known to abhorre this sin by the judgements he hath in this world executed on such as have been guilty of this sin as in the three years Famine in Davids dayes which came on Israel for their breaking the Oath with the Gibeonites x. Sauls Family felt the y 2 Sam. 21. 1 vengeance of their Fathers folly And the Kingdom of Judah and Israel mourned because of this sin y Jer. 23. 10 Hoses 4. 2 God removed the Diadem took off the Crown and over-turned the glory of King Zedekiah and brought shame and confusion on his posterity and Army for his prophanness and perjury z Ezek. 21. 23 25 c Ezek. 17. 18 19 And what hapned to the late unhappy King and his damning cursing and perjured Army is too fresh in memory to relate I have read of a Soul●●er in Germany who being sick gave his Money to the Host w 〈…〉 e he lay and being recovered he demanded it which he denying the Souldier sued him but the Host forswore it against his Conscience and presently the Devil carried him away in the presence of the Court nor could he ever after be heard of a Fincelius libr. 1 demirac 'T is as one calls it A God provoking and a Devil impowering sin b Heavens Alarm to Jurors It so provoked the Lords wrath against the Christians in the Holy Land and so impowered the devilish Turks