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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29218	Signes of the times, or, Prognosticks of future judgements with the way how to prevent them / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing B425; ESTC R22957	20,184	37

understanding Whereupon it is recorded as a great aggravation of Jeroboams sin that he offered to God in the fifteenth day of the eigth moneth 1 King 15.32 even in the moneth which he had devised of his own heart From all which places it appears that the Idol did not so much provoke God as the ill temper of heart in the idolater which occasioned it and that was a proud conceit of mending the Law of God and of adding something to make it more specious And this corrupt principle is the true spring of all invented uncommanded and therefore unwarrantable forms of Worship In defence of which whoever pleads custome and antiquity doth only use Names for which we ought so much the more to detest it Since the older an error is the worse it is and calls for the sorer rain of judgment to wash those inveterate stains of it away As God threatens by Amos Amos 2.4 For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not turn away the punishment because they have despised the Law of the Lord and have not kept his Commandments and their lies caused them to erre after the which their fathers walked They it seems pleaded custome too and tradition from Fathers but this very thing did so little abate that it is mentioned as a cause of their punishment And it is very observable that when the people of Israel were flat Idolaters God did content himself with punishing them only by seventy years captivity But in our Saviours time when in great zeal not for Gods Law but for their own false glosses and Comments upon it by which they sought to uphold their superstitious usages they rejected Christ and would not endure the simplicity of his Gospel At which time they were so far from idolatry that they would not brooke so much as the Emperours Statue to be set upon the Temple yet God did look upon that refined and more subtle Idolatry that will-worship of theirs to be so great and so incurable a sin that he soon after fulfilled all those wees which our Saviour had denounced against them and left them neither place nor Nation and they are at this day a terrible Instance both how ill managers of holy things humane fancy is and likewise how severely God will avenge such bold and unlicensed intermedling 2. The second Command which God hath fenced with a commination is that against taking Gods name in vain concerning which he affirms that he will not hold the doers of it guiltlesse i. e. he will certainly and unavoidably punish them By taking Gods name in vain may be meant either false or vain swearing and either of them is a grievous God-provoking sin For the first viz. that of perjury or forswearing the Instances are so notorious that I need not insist on them The cases of Joshua and the Gibeonites which was an Oath got by fraud Ezek. 17.13 19. of Zedekiah and Nebuchadnezzar which was an Oath extorted by force might seem to have something pleadable in their excuse but Gods indispensable punishing the violatours of those solemn Vowes sufficiently showes us that those persons who have been in the same case must needs expect the same punishment if they shall venture to commit the same sin I shall therefore omit the prosecution of the guilt of perjury against which so many curses are denounced in Scripture that as certain as God is true so certain is it that that sin will never long scape unpunished And only mention the inevitable danger of vain-swearing which because it is more common men are apt to think is more excusable This swearing in ordinary discourse is that which our Saviour in his explication of the Law Mat. 5.33 37. sayes was originally entended should be forbidden and therefore it is expresly prohibited by him because it proceeds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From that evill one who delights in all manner of superfluity of naughtiness Iames 1.21 as the Apostle James calls sinne and therefore needless and unnecessary Oaths must needs take their first rise from his instigation And when this sin did abound among the Pharisees in our Saviours time who made as little scruple to make as to break their Oath for which we read they had found out many subtle distinctions as that an Oath by the Altar did not bind Mat. 23.16 22. though an Oath by the gold upon the Altar did and the like Our Saviour first tells them that every Oath they swear by any thing how light and trivial soever was sacred and obligatory since it had an immediate aspect upon the Creator whose name though it was not interposed yet was understood in all those solemne asseverations And then denounces a Woe against them for such rash and inconsiderate swearing Deut. 28.58 since it betrayes a great want of reverence towards God so lightly to mention his name which ought to be feared and dreaded by us And if they would plead that they did not mention the name of God but only swear by the creature as by their head c. the crime is so much the worse since it puts the creature into the place of God who only hears our vows and can take notice to punish the breach of them So James where he bids us not sware at all gives this reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 least ye fall under judgment i. e. Incurre some signall punishment and judgment from God for God will not have his Name tossed about irreverently in our mouths An Oath is a religious tye and therefore ought to be solemn as well as sacred When therefore a Nation abounds with oaths and cursing when swearing and banning and blaspheming becomes our ordinary language it is a sign that the tongues of men are set on fire of hell Iames 3.6 and that calls for the fire of divine wrath to purifie them Lastly The third command which is especially recommended to us and therefore the breach of it cannot but be very dangerous is that about keeping the Sabbath which begins with a Memento to shew that it is very remarkable and concludes with urging Gods example who is to be our pattern in all holy performances And it s this which gives that command its obligation for since the reason there alledged is universally equal viz. That we ought to rest because God the Creator did rest upon the seventh day it must needs follow from hence that the command is universally binding Whereupon we find that it was enjoyned unto Adam in Paradise Gen. 2. when the nature of man was in its highest and most elevated degree of perfection and therefore neither pretences of piety with some nor commands from Authority with others nor examples of antiquity with the most either can absolve any or ought to prevaile with us to quit and to leave off this duty Hence we find that in all predictions the breach of the Sabbath is alwayes reckoned for one of the greatest and most