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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61835	A sermon concerning svvearing preached before the King's Maiesty in Christ-Church Oxon, May the 12, 1644 / by W. Strode ...	Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5985; ESTC R15297	17,733	31

Or rather the second yea is added to stint the former and to exclude Swearing let your Affirmation be meerly Affirmative Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay according to S. James c. 5.12 v. or lastly to strengthen the Asseveration as Pharaoh's Dreame was assured by doubling it and as the practice of our Saviour shewes Amen Amen Verily Verily I say unto you Pure Affirmation and Negation without the staring Embroydery of Oathes is sufficient for Common discourse because things familiarly spoken are either credible of themselves or else have no absolute necessity of credence Where nothing more then Affirmation is necessary why should more be strain'd To lift a Feather with both hands and with strong Engines to hoot alowd where a whisper is better heard is it not ridiculous If frequent Lying had not begot a just Incredulity I see not why an hearty Asseveration might not supply the place of an Oath even in the weightiest matters and then the Lyar might be esteemed and censured no otherwise then now the Perjur'd the same Figure put in a higher place carries ten times more Value so we find that the bare word of an approved honest man passeth for an Oath so should the word of a Priest by the Credit of his Profession and the word of a Peere by the vertuous Estimation of his Honour The Essens saith Josephus accounted him a Convict Liar whose word would not passe without the Suretiship of God We never find that our Saviour swore at all though he uttered things of greatest consequence for indeed his works did sufficiently confirme his words Mans voyce passeth through the Eare onely but Gods through the Eye also as Philo observes out of the 20. of Exod where the People is said to have seen the Object of the Eare yea to have seen the noyse of the Trumpet the like we read in the second of Jer. v. 31. O Generation see the word of the Lord Grant me therefore a Heart transparent in word Reall Truth conformable to the Divine Patterne let these grow habituall amongst us then me thinkes all our businesse may well be transacted without such straining of Credit Or if a single Affirmation will not sufface let it be doubled as here in my Text two yeas may stand for an Oath two nayes for an Execration especially when the Forme hath beene recommended by our Saviour Doubtlesse this is the way of Perfection pointed out by his Instruction to them that desire it Christ would have his so simple as not to Deceive so Candid as not to distrust St Jerome is bold to affirme that Swearing by Gods Name was allowed to the Jewes as to Children and no otherwise then the use of Sacrifice to prevent Idolatry that the Stature of Evangelicall Truth will not owne it since every word of the Faithfull ought to weigh with an Oath Howsoever though the malignity of the world require that in arduous affaires of inextricable doubt an Oath be still indulg'd yet let us use this our Priviledge modestly let us honour God in this our weaknesse let not the use of his Name descend to obvious and familiar Communication there a double yea is superabundant no Colour no Pretext for more there an Oath there taken destroyes the End for which it is allowed and instead of Credence begets more Incredulity more suspition because the Bond of Confirmation is so cheaply esteemed Swearing was never commanded Absolutely but either Comparatively that men might rather sweare by the True God then by a False or Respectively out of urgent necessity or Circumstantially with due Conditions And therefore though it may be good in it selfe 't is not good for it selfe not good like Health but like Physick which may be used for Necessity but ought not to be desired and frequented because of the Danger If an Oath be but Physick for Incredulity take heed to thy selfe for Physick swallowed without a Cause breedes sicknesse Above all things Sweare not saith S. James least ye fall into Condemnation least easinesse of Swearing bring a habit the habit continuance continuance Perjury and these eternall Malediction What saith S. Austin Falsa Juratio est Impiae vera est Periculosa nulla est Secura False Swearing is Impious True is Dangerous none at all is Secure Though Danger be not considerable in case of necessity yet beware least the past Act of necessity dispose thee to habit Things not Absolutely but Occasionally good ought to be used Rarely and with ponder'd Circumstance To execute an Offender is Lawfull but not to kill on particular pleasure or in Passion Though an Oath may be taken Religiously and safely as occasion shall require yet commonly to hurle it forth is most Irreligious and therefore most Banefull That it is most Irreligious will some appeare Familiarity betwixt unequalls takes of respect whensoever it is challeng'd and things most glorious are soyld by ordinary use so is the name of the Almighty it looses its due Reverence by obvious usurpation insomuch that it failes of its binding vertue in matters of weight Whatsoever is Sacred on earth is shut up and abstracted from Community What 's the holinesse of the Lords day a separation from all worke but only His Service any other worke prophanes it What 's the holinesse of the Lords Place or Church a separation from all use but His any other use as walking or idle communing especially in time of Divine Service this as well as Merchandise prophanes it What 's the holinesse of God's name which is nearer unto him then either of these and shall indure when these are gone a separation from common discourse all speech but sacred and Necessary prophanes it Then wash thy mouth with teares from thine Eye for polluting his Holy and Reverend Name with vaine Appellation St Paules Attestation in his Epistles gives no example to common swearing his matter is not so light as our Communication neither is the Pen so rash as the Tongue Scribentis consideratio cautior non habet linguam praecipitem saith Aquinas the consideration of the wary writer prunes off all headlong Expressions incident to talke so that the Apostles Oath is not the zeale of Folly but of Vnderstanding 'T is easily observable that we scarce name our friends or earthly superiours without a formall respect sometimes we move the Hat and sometimes we put it off then to use the name of God unnecessarily and Irreverently is as much as to say God is neither our Friend nor Superiour O wretched disrespect where the Proportion of Honour due is infinitely greater would the Swearing Lord or forswearing Gallant take it well himselfe to be lightly talk'd of to be call'd Dick or Tom by a rude pesant if such language be sawcy and rustick concerning himselfe how presumptuous and prophane is his owne touching the Lord of Lords But an Oath is more then the bare Naming of God it calls him to witnesse a businesse not light howsoever vilified through Custome