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knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	3,416	5	11.8881	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60636	Innocency and conscientiousness of the Quakers asserted and cleared from the evil surmises, false aspersions, and unrighteous suggestions of Judge Keeling expressed in his speech made the seventh of the seventh month at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily ... : wherein also is shewed that this law doth not concern them, they being no seditious sectaries, nor contrivers of insurrections, nor evil-doers, therefore no just law is against them.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4308; ESTC R16062	11,414	18

England As for the Kings Mercy it cannot save us if we transgress against God and make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience his Righteous Judgments will find us out and we must give an account to him and walk so as we may partake of His Mercy which the King as well as the Beggar hath and will have need of also howbeit we never yet forfeited our Interest in the King's Promises of Liberty to tender Consciences so often renewed by him though it appears by this Judge's so much inveighing against us that he would fain make people believe we do not deserve our Liberty or Interest therein but that will not clear him nor them in the sight of God concerning those Promises And as for the Purity of Englands Church it 's out of our sight except it consists much in Swearing which the Judge saith is a special part of God's Worship If this be Purity there 's too much of that among the members thereof but that will never reclaim us for we can see a great deal of Impurity Corruption and Soul-sickness in it And as much the members of it confess themselves That they are full of putrified sores from the crown of the head to the soal of the feet and that there is no health nor soundness in them And that they do those things they should not do and leave undone those things they should do And that they are Miserable Offenders and sin in their Best Performances Indeed they speak enough of themselves to cause all wholsome sound understanding People to shun them and their Church and Worship as men shun a Contagious Disease or Infection And it is manifest that the Nature and Spirit of Christianity is wanting among them and that the spirit of Cain that worshipper who was the first Murderer about Religion rules among them And what weapons have they ever used to reclaim us or call us back again to worship as they do have not their weapons been Carnal and the course they have taken Force and Violence by stirring up the Magistrates to make cruel Laws against us which was never the true Christians work nor way to bring people to believe their Doctrine and to worship as they did but Cains way and his wages will all Persecutors about Religion receive from the hand of the Lord as a just recompence of reward Judge They teach dangerous Principles this for one That it is not lawful to take an Oath You must not think their Leaders believe this Doctrine themselves only they perswade these poor ignorant souls so but they have an Interest to carry on against the Government and therefore they will not swear Subjection to it and their end is Rebellion and Blood You may easily know that they do not believe themselves what they say when they say it is not lawful to take an Oath if you look into the Scriptures that Text Mat. 5. where our Saviour saith Swear not at all will clear it self from such a meaning as for bids Swearing if you look but into the next words where it is said Let your communication be yea yea and nay nay and it is said an Oath is the end of all strife this for the New Testament And the Old is positive for Swearing And they that deny Swearing deny God a special part of his Worship Answer Our Principles are Truth and according to the Scriptures of Truth but that great Evil to call Light darkness and darkness Light Good evil and evil Good is befaln this Generation And that which leads to Unity and the Preservation of Mankind is now counted dangerous and destructive Swearing or taking of Oaths was not in the beginning there was no need or occasion for it Strife was not begun but when Man broke his Unity with God and ran into Disobedience then Strife and every evil work followed among men Then to limit this evil spirit which Man followed into Transgression an Outward Law was added and Swearing and Vowing under a Curse came up and such as vowed were to perform their Vows unto the Lord and those that swore were to swear by or in the Name of the Lord and not in or by the name of an Idol or any other creature and this was in the Fall while the Wall of Partition stood Now Christ who is the Restorer and the maker up of Breaches who was with the Father before any of these things were in the Fulness of time in a Body prepared he appeared to fulfill the Law and to put an end to Sin which was the occasion of the Law and to finish Transgression and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness and to restore and bring Man back again into the knowledge and unity of his Maker from whom he fell by disobedience And these things which the Father sent him to do he finished and finisheth for all that received believed receivet and believe in him and follow him in the Regeneration And while he was with his Disciples in that prepared Body in which he came to do the Will of the Father he gave forth many Precepts and Commands unto them among which this is one minding them how it was in old time viz. under Moses Law how that they were to swear and perform their Vows to the Lord But saith he who was before Moses was I say unto you Swear not at all neither by one thing or another but let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil And Moses Law and the Old time saith also An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth smiting for smiting and that they should love their neighbour and hate their enemies but Christ taught and teacheth his Disciples a harder lessen of Bearing and Forhearing Love Gentleness and Heavenly-kindness that they might be more like their heavenly Father than Moses's Disciples were for saith he if you love them that love you and if you are friendly to your Brethren only what do you do more than sinners c. So he that was before the Law leads to the End of the Law which is Love and brings those that follow him to be like-minded to him as the Christians in the Primitive times were who said they had the mind of Christ and did exhort one another to the same And that this Command of Christ forbids all Swearing is not only clear from the end and circumstance of the foregoing and following words but also from the Apostle James's Exhortation who said Above all things my Brethren Swear not neither by Heaven nor Earth nor any other Oath lest ye fall into condemnation And it is also written that if any say they love Christ and keep not his Commandments they are Lyars So who ever reads these Scriptures Mat. 5. Jam. 5. 12. except the god of this world hath blinded the eye of their minds may plainly perceive that not only prophane swearing but all manner of Swearing among the Disciples of Christ who brings all that