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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

stood about him in these general terms ye shall all perish this was not without an exception of such as should repent but then that exception was not without an expression viz. Except ye repent he said oft to all his hearers Ye cannot enter into the kingdom of God that was not without exceptions nor those exceptions without expressions viz. Except ye be converted and become as little children and Matth. 5. Except your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharises many of whom yet were blameless as to that righteousness of the Letter of the Law Yea in the Verses immediately before this universal prohibition Swear not at all Matth. 5. 30 31. Christ saies 'T was said of old if any will put away his Wife let him give her a Bill of Divorce but I say whosoever shall put away his Wife causeth her to commit Adultery this general term admits of an exception but then that exception is thus exprest viz. Saving for the cause of Fornication i. e. Except she play the Harlot But now as to this general term and universal prohibition Swear not at all it cannot be taken with restriction or as admitting of any exception because there is not onely no expression made anywhere after it of any such exception but a fuller amplification of it by such particulars as are more particularly exclusive of all kinds of Oaths and of all Oaths of any kind thus viz. Nor by Heaven nor Earth c. nor any other Oath And also by the Apostle Iames 5. 12. a reinforcement and reduplication of the said universal prohibition Whereas if Christ had intended any exception here he might as easily have exprest it and would as assuredly as he did immediately above in the case of Divorce by Except in the case of Fornication and so have said Swear not at all except it be solemne and sacred Oaths in Courts when yee are called to swear before a Magistrate upon a Book But as I said in stead of expressing any exception he adds that which more strengthens and clears beyond all exception the universality of his prohibition Thus we see in how mean a manner J. I. hath managed this matter he hath undertaken of informing those who are tender conscientious and dis-satisfied in that great Case of Conscience concerning Swearing and those two difficult Texts as he calls them truly enough in reference to himself on whom they sit too hard for him to wind himself from under the condemnation of Matth. 5. Iames 5. Which instead of opening he hath by his silly shuffles and blind blurres about them which yet have a golden gloss in the eyes of such as rather then imprisonment chuse to purchase their Liberty by Swearing what in him lies rather shut many men out from seeing into the true mind and meaning of the Spirit in them So running himself upon both those two Rocks he pretends to carry people from suffering rack upon viz. Ignorance and Scandal which he in the same ignorance in which he wrote all the rest likens to Scylla and Caribdis whcih are not two Rocks but the one a Rock the other a Gulf 1 Ignorance in as blindly defending that sin of Swearing which in the blindness of his mind he had before fell into 2. Scandal in offending and stumbling the tender Consciences of many an honest man by his both taking and talking for the same And howbeit he hopes he hath the price he runs for and so in words wishes that God may have the glory yet in deed and truth God's Name hath dishonor and his Truth shame by his dawby doings And if he have the price he runs for as he hath not if it be no more then the proving of Oaths now lawful for he fails in that but yet hath for a time at least if it be the saving his Estate as some not ungroundly suspect it is yet what will that profit him had he not onely sav'd his own but gain'd the whole world to boot by it seeing thereby he hath lost himself unless he yet repent and recant his rashness in so running in the sight of God and good men And now a word or two more with H. D. as to his doings in denying the true mind of Christ which we defend from Mat. 5. 33 Iam. 5. 12. From whence when we argue though 't were lawful in former times to swear yet it 's unlawful to us now having received here a countermand from the Lord Jesus Christ H. D. answers as follows H. D. Have patience I entreat you while I take liberty to examine your grounds and to weigh them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary Rep. Whoever is out of the Light of God which is in himself wherein God dwells as H. D. yet is or else he would justifie both it and the children of it more then he seems to do in his two last pages where he Quips at the Quaker and his Light within him as confuted in the case of Swearing by the consent and common custom of the Nations in the fall whose customs the Scripture sayes are vain Ier. 15. as if wha●… the Nations say and do in their state of alienation from the Light were more consonant to the Light then what they say or do who are come to it and continue in it He is out of the Sanctuary hath none but the uneven Ballance of his own Brain to weigh what 's truth withall and condemns the Generation of the Iust and is himself by such as abide in the Sanctuary with the Lord weighed in the Ballance of it and found too light And so is H. D. in his driblings about the point in hand Howbeit we shall have so much patience as to weigh his Exceptions against our Translations of the Texts aforesaid And first to our Saviours own Prohibition Swear not at all That which I bring in answer to this quoth he is an exception against the Translation the Greek word At all is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifieth wholly or altogether rather then at all so that in the proper speech it should be read Swear not wholly or altogether let not your whole communication be interwoven with Oaths Rep. H. Den peradventure may seem very bold indeed to some as he sayes p. 3. about his rare rendition of that other place Gen. 4. 26. in taking on him to translate this against the common course and consent of Nations and their Commentators so selfishly and singularly as he do's to his own turn also though he seems as bold to my self as any yet is he in what he do's not very much more bold then welcom to me for though I will not allow every one to read it so for it 's rather to be read at all then altogether yet I can afford him without prejudice to the truth we plead to wrest and scrue it so far as he does bedsies it self sith swear not nor is nor can be denied to be a Prohibition of Swearing