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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38972	The examination and tryall of Margaret Fell and George Fox (at the severall assizes held at Lancaster the 14th and 16th days of the first moneth, 1663, and the 29th of the 6th moneth, 1664) for their obedience to Christs command who saith, swear not at all also something in answer to Bishop Lancelot Andrews sermon concerning swearing.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing E3710; ESTC R20823	23,490	38

things c. And so he goes on and lets them see what was in the law committing Adultery was forbid under the law but in the time of Christ looking upon a Woman and lusting after her was committing Adultery And he sets forth in the justice of the law an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and shews how that in the time of the law thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of judgment but I say unto you that whosoever shall be angry with his Brother without cause shall be in danger of judgment and so he tells both swearing and killing to be in the old time and said except the Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven Fifteenthly And as to that of the Apostle speaking in the 1 Thes. 2. God was his witness that he did not make Covetousness his Cloak Answ. It were well if the Priests could say so now but this doth not prove that he swore and there are many men that takes man to be his witness and that is not an oath surely is it Thou understands that And if this were an oath why do you cast friends into prison Sixteenthly And that of the Galatians Chapter 1. 2. There is nothing in that place like unto an Oath which he brings Seventeenthly And as for the 2 or 4. 23. Verse there are not so many Verses in that Chapter And as for the Ephesians th 4th and 15th which he brings for Christians to swear which he says we are bound at all times to speak truth to our Neighbours Answ. He doth not say we are to swear truth at all times but to speak it at all times Eighteenthly And that which he brings in Acts 23. 3. How the Apostle reproved the High Priest that caused him to be smitten contrary to law Answ. Here the Apostle was preaching the Gospel and Christs doctrine to them to the Priests that had the Law and outward things this was nothing to the purpose that the Apostle should swear or that Christians should swear And in the 14th Verse which he quotes Answ. Those were the bad people that bound themselves with a Curse that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul that preached the Gospel this is nothing at all that Christians should swear Nineteenthly We say there were Heathens oaths annd Jews oaths which were to swear by the Lord which Christ calls the old time which they were to perform which oath Christ ends and saith swear not at all for in the time of the law the Jews were to deny all false oaths and heathenish oaths and they were not to swear by Baal but the true oath which Christ ends And did not the Christians suffer in the Primitive times because they could not swear by the Prosperity of Caesar and was not that oath then imposed upon them And by the good fortune of the Emperour was not that another oath And did not many Christians then suffer because they could not swear read the ten persecutions which was a long time before the Pope got up and then did not the Pope when he had got up over the Churches give forth both Oath and Curse with Bell Book and Candle And was not the ceremony of his oath to lay three fingers a top of the book to signifie the Trinity And two fingers under the book to signifie Damnation of body and soul if they sware falsly And was not there a great number of people that would not swear and suffered great persecution as read the Book of Martyrs but to Bonners days and its little above an hundred years since the Protestants got up And they gave forth the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Supremacy the one was to deny the Popes Supremacy and the other to acknowledge the Kings of England So we need not to tell you of their form and shew you the ceremony of the oath it saith kiss the Book and the Book saith kiss the Son which saith swear not at all and so cannot Allegiance be to the King in truth and faithfulness as was said before without an Oath yea and more then many that swears So you may see to deny swearing is no new thing for it was the practise of the Christians in former times to deny it both in Heathens and the times of Popery before Protestants and so it is in obedience to the command of Christ that we do not swear in our loves to him if we say he is Lord Master and do not the thing that he commands that is but deceit and hypocrisie And so rash and bad swearing that was forbidden in the time of the Law it was not that which Christ came to fulfill but true Oaths and the true Types Figures and Shadows and he saith swear not at all Twentiethly And as for Acts the 13th there is nothing spoken of swearing there as all people may read 21thly And whereas the Apostle often speaks and taking to witness a Record upon his own soul by his rejoyeing in Christ Jesus what is all this to swearing and taking an oath or where did ever the Apostle take a solemn oath or command the Brethren and Churches to do the same for often he speaks of the witness our of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established And the Bishop often brings the 1 Cor. 15. 31. By our rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus I die daily This place cannot be brought for a proof that the Apostle sware If so when thou saist by thy meat thou art refreshed and by the fire thou art warmed and people tells thee thou must go by such a lane to such a Town they all swear then do they not 22thly As for the Particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop says its never used but in an oath only Answ. And what is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is it not truly as also the Primitive word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies yea and is not that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the aforementioned 5th of Matthew and 5th of James where swearing is denyed for is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek yea in English and is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek truly in English and if every man that says yea and truly sweareth then the Bishop proves his Assertion And is not there a difference between 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So in Meekness and Love read this over in that from which it was sent POST-SCRIPT Christ Jesus who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Beginning and Ending First and Last him by whom God will Judge the World in Righteousness WE Quaery of you whether he or any of his Apostles after they had given forth a Command that none should Swear but keep to yea and nay in all their Communications can any Minister or Teacher prove this in express words out of the New Testament that they ever commanded to swear or did swear that will satisfie that will end all But that we should be cast into prison for our obedience to Christs command by you that professes your selves to be Christians and own Christ Jesus as you say is not right And he commands you to love Enemies if you did obey his commands and love one another for they that are Christians and own Christ Jesus they should love one another For this was a mark by which they were known to be Disciples learners of him And so they that are lovers of him own him and obey him and his doctrins so though we do suffer here by you all the Sessions or Assizes we do commit our cause and you that do persecuters to the General Assizes and terrible day wherein God will Judge the world in Rightconsness by the man Christ Jesus whose commands we obey in tenderness and there we know we shall have true Judgment without respect of persons there our Hats will not be looked at before the Almighty but the action and transgression and who hath served God and who hath not served him for Christ hath told you before hand what he will say to them that visits him not in prison where he is made manifest in his Brethren Then what will become of them that casts them into prison for tenderness towards God for obeying his Dctring and keeps to yea and nay in their Communications according to his words And so those things we leave to the General day Though we can say the Lord for give you that deth thus persecute in if it be his will freely from our hearts for we do you nor no man harm but seek the good and peace of all men and for this cause for obeying the truth we do suffer G. F. THE END