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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

People Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not swear by my Name falsly neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 12. Thou shalt not curse the Deaf nor put a stumbling block before the Blind but shalt fear thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 14. He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death Levit. 24. 16. Every one that curseth his Father or his Mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his Father or his Mother his Blood shall be upon him Lev. 20. 9. Cursed be he that curseth his Father or his Mother Deut. 27. 16. The Vngodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his Thoughts His Mouth is full of Cursing Deceit and Fraud under his Tongue is Vngodliness and Vanity Psal 10. 4 7. For the sin of their Mouth and for the words of their Lips they shall be taken in their Pride and why Their Preaching is of Cursing and Lies Psal 59. 12. Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in Lies they give good words with their Mouth but curse with their Heart Psal 62. 4. His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him He clothed himself with Cursing like as with a Raiment and it shall come into his Bowels like Water and like Oil into his Bones Psal 119. 16 17. The wicked is snared by the Transgression of his Lips but the just shall come out of Trouble Prov. 12. 13. A wholesom Tongue is a Tree of Life but perverseness therein is a breach in Spirit Prov. 15. 4. A man's Belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his Mouth and with the increase of his Lips shall he be filled Death and Life are in the power of the Tongue and they that love it shall eat the Fruit thereof Prov. 18. 20 21. Whoso Curseth his Father or his Mother his Lamp shall be put out in obscure Darkness Prov. 20. 20. Whoso keepeth his Mouth and his Tongue keepeth his Soul from Trouble Prov. 21. 23. As the Bird by wandring as the Swallow by flying so the Curse causeless shall not come Prov. 26. 2. There is a Generation that curseth their Father and doth not bless their Mother Prov. 30. 11. Suffer not thy Mouth to cause thy Flesh to sin Eccles 5. 6. Curse not the King no not in thy Thought and curse not the rich in thy Bed chamber For a Bird of the Air shall carry the Voice and that which hath Wings shall tell the matter Eccles 10. 20. For the Land is full of Adulterers for because of swearing the Land mourneth the pleasant places of the Wilderness are dried up and their course is evil and their force is not right Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the Darkness they shall be driven on and fall therein for I will bring evil upon them even the year of their Visitation saith the Lord. Jer. 23. 10 12. By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing Adultery they break out and Blood toucheth Blood Hosea 4. 2. For Wisdom is a loving Spirit and will not acquit a Blasphemer of his words for God is witness of his Reins and a true beholder of his Heart and a hearer of his Tongue Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid neither shall Vengeance when it punisheth pass by him For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the Vngodly and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked Deeds Wisd 1. 6 8 9. The Blessing of the Father establisheth the Houses of Children but the Curse of the Mother rooteth out Foundations Ecclus. 3. 9. Then said he unto me This is the Curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole Earth for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on that side according to it I will bring it forth saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall enter into the House of the Thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the midst of his House and shall consume it with the Timber thereof and the Stones thereof Zech. 5. 3 4. Accustom not thy Mouth to swearing neither use thy self to the naming of the Holy One. A man that useth much Swearing shall be filled with Iniquity and the plague shall never depart from his House if he shall offend his Sin shall be upon him and if he acknowledg not his Sin he maketh a double Offence and if he swear in vain he shall not be Innocent but his House shall be full of Calamities Ecclus. 23. 9. 11. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Foot-stool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy Head because thou canst not make one Hair white or black But let your Communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 34 35 36 37. For God commanded saying Honour thy Father and thy Mother and he that Curseth Father or Mother let him die the Death Mat. 15. 4. Their Throat is an open Sepulchre with their Tongues they have used Deceit the poison of Asps it under their Lips Whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness Destruction and Misery are in their ways There is no fear of God before their Eyes Rom. 3. 13 14 16 18. Let bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4. 31. The Tongue is a Fire a world of Iniquity it defileth the whole Body and setteth on fire the course of Nature and it is set on fire of Hell It is an unruly Evil full of deadly Poison Therewith bless we God and therewith curse we Men which are made after the similitude of God Out of the same Mouth proceedeth Blessing and Cursing my Brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 6 8 9 10. But above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into Condemnation James 5. 12. If any idle debauched Swearers and Cursers be so emboldned in their profane customary Wickedness as that after the reading or hearing of these before-mentioned places of Scripture they shall still dare to proceed and run on in their wilful wicked sinful Courses I shall for their further Caution in this next following Chapter give them a brief relation of several signal Instances of God's severe wrath and displeasure against such Wickedness manifested by the fearful terrible and amazing