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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20760	Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common sinnes; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkennesse, whoredome, and briberie. Wherein the greatnes and odiousnesse of these vices is discouered; and the meanes and remedies, which may either preserue, or weane men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By Iohn Dovvname Batcheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.	Downame, John, d. 1652.; Downame, John, d. 1652. Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule, arising from superfluitie of choller, prescribed out of Gods word. aut	1609 (1609)	STC 7141; ESTC S110222	260,958	336

men and more to bee credited and respected then the most manifest arguments and truest witnesses that can be produced and therefore the Apostle saith Heb. 6.16 that an oath for confirmation is the end of all strife Heb. 6.16 And consequently great is the profit which is bringeth no mankinde seeing it is a notable meanes not only for the maintaining of truth and iustice but also for the taking away of discord and dissensions and for the establishing of peace and Christian friendship Lastly §. Sect. 5. The vse of a lawfull oath vvarranted by examples the vse of a lawfull oath is not only warranted but also commended vnto vs by manifold examples in the Scriptures As first the Saints and holie men of God for the confirmation of necessarie and vndemonstrable truths and to put an end to controuersies and dissensions haue vsed to sweare one to another As Abraham and Isaac to Abimilech Iacob to Laban Ioseph to Iacob Dauid to Ionathan Elias to Obadiah and many other And lest it should bee obiected that howsoeuer they were holy Saints of God yet they were men and might therefore erre we are further to know that the holie men of God as they were the penmen of holie Scripture immediatly inspired by the holie Ghost and consequently exempted from all error and sinne did in the penning of the Scriptures confirme the truth of God by a lawfull and pious oath Examples hereof are manifold Rom. 1.9 God is my witnesse Rom. 1.9 and 9.1 whom I serue in my spirit And 9.1 I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost The like paces wee haue 1. Cor. 15.31.2 Cor. 1.23 and 11.31 and 12.19 Gal. 1.10 Phil. 1.8.1 Thes 2.5.10.2 Thes 2.1 So likewise the holy Angels who are priuiledged from sin and error haue vsed the name of their great Lord and Master in swearing by it Dan. 12.7 Dan. 12.7 it is said that the Angell held vp his right hand and his left hand vnto heauen and sware by him that liueth for euer Apoc. 10.5.6 So Apoc. 10.5.6 But what should I stand vpon the example of the creatures when as the great Creator of heauen and earth hath approoued the holie vse of an oath in his owne practise Gen. 22.16 Genes 22.16 By my selfe haue I sworne saith the Lord because thou hast done this thing c. Numb 14.28 Numb 14.28 As I liue saith the Lord I will surely doe vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares So Psal 110.4 and 132. 11. Esa 14.24 and 45.23 and 54.9 Iere. 44.26 Luk. 1.73 Rom. 14.11 Heb. 6.13.16 Against this the Anabaptists obiect the saying of our Sauiour §. Sect. 6. An obiection out of Math. 5.34 answered Mat. chap.5 vers 34 But I say vnto you sweare not at all neither by heauen for it is the throne of God c. Whence they gather that howsoeuer swearing was vsed and allowed vnder the Law yet no manner of oathes are lawfull in the time of the Gospell To which I answere that their interpretation of these words is both wicked and absurd first because they hereby make this Scripture contradict other places which directly inioyne a lawfull oath Secondly hereby they make Christ condemne the practise of his holy Saints and euen of the penmen of the holy Scriptures yea of God the Father himselfe as before hath bin shewed Yea they make Christs precept contrarie to his owne practise for he himself vpon waightie occasion vsed that earnest and solemne asseueration Amen Amen Verely verely which though it should be no oath Heb. 6.14 as the Apostle seemeth to implie that it is Heb. 6.14 yet is it at least a vehement asseueration and consequently more then yea yea and nay nay And moreouer they make our Sauiour to contradict his owne words verse 17. where he saith that he came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets but to fulfill them for if he should take away the vse of a lawfull oath hee should destroy part of the Morall law which inioyneth it as a part of Gods seruice and consequently should spoile God his Father of a part of his worshippe which was not only required vnder the Law but also it was foretold that the Church of Christ should also vse it in the time of the Gospell Esa 19.18 and 65.16 Esa 19.18 and 65.16 Thirdly hereby they ouerthrow the law of nature and nations which established a lawfull oath in waightie and necessary causes euen before the law of Moses as appeareth in the storie of the Patriarchs Lastly they hereby weaken truth by plucking from it the chiefe band whereby it is strengthened and confirmed they take away the meanes to end controuersies and together with it peace amitie and agreement and so leaue a wide doore open to iealousie suspition discord and dissension This interpretation therefore is not to be receiued §. Sect. 7. Math. 5.34 expounded but rather another which admitteth none of the former absurdities and better agreeth with the maine drift and scope of Christ in this place Now the drift of Christ was not to take away the vse of an oath and so to disanull a part of the law against which in the beginning of his speech he protested but to vindicate and free it from the corrupt glosses and false expositions of the Pharisies who tooke away the spirituall vnderstanding which is the chiefe life of law and expounded the Commandements like the Papists in these daies in a litterall and grosse sense onely namely of the outward fact alone in the grossest kinde For example that the sixth Commandement onely forbiddeth actuall killing the seuenth actuall vncleannesse and the third periurie and false swearing by the name of God For howsoeuer they had the name of God himselfe in some outward reuerence yet they taught that it was lawfull to sweare in their ordinarie communication by the creatures which did not immediatly appertaine to Gods worship and seruice as the heauens the earth the altar their head and such like because the Commandement onely forbiddeth to take the name of the Lord our God in vaine And secondly they taught that if a man had sworne by these creatures and did not keepe his oath yet hee sinned not Leuit. 19.12 because it is said Leuit. 19.12 Yee shall not sweare by my name falsely neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God And this appeareth both in the 5. Matth. 5.23 and 23. Chapters of Mat. where Christ laboureth to confute this false doctrine and to reforme these abuses In the fifth Chapter and verse 33. he propoundeth their doctrine Yee haue heard that it was said to them of old time Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe but shalt performe thine oathes to the Lord but I say vnto you Sweare not at all neither by heauen for it is the throne of God c. Where hee sheweth that they had in their doctrine condemned forswearing and