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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38464	The English manner of swearing vindicated, or, The judgment of an eminent nonconformist minister of London concerning these four questions viz., q. I. Is it lawful in swearing to lay the hand upon the Bible? q. II. Is it lawful to kiss it in swearing? q. III. May one that scrupleth thus swearing himself, yet commissioned, give an oath thus to another that scrupleth it not? q. IV. How far is swearing by creatures a sin? : wherein several objections about the foresaid questions are answered.		1687 (1687)	Wing E3098; ESTC R26129	6,685	10

fit in Papatu Answ 1. But that same act which in Papatu is superstitious because of superstitious conceits ends is not so in all others which have none such 2. It●s ●o new thing to be quick in accusing our adversaries but Paraeus addeth not a syllable of Proof and if he had it must have been such as touch't not us or else invalid Object III. Some good men have scrupled it Answ Ten thousand to one such have not scrupled it 2. They are not our Gods nor Law. And if we avoid all as sin which some good men have scrupled we shall make Superstition a great part of our Religion And when on the same grounds we have but practised all as duty which some good men have taken for duty we shall quite out-go the Papists Object IV. Our Common-Law Commissions that give authority to examine persons direct it to be done supra Sacramenta sua per sancta Dei evangelia fideliter praestanda And in the form of Administration in Ecclesiastical Courts the words are Ad sancta Dei Evangelii rite legitime jurati Whether these Forms do not infer that in their first use at least persons either swore by the Evangelists or offended in the mode of swearing And our Common Law calls it a Corporal Oath from touching the Book Answ 1 To know the sense of our present Law it is not necessary that we know the sense of the first users of the Form For the Law is not now the King's Law tha● first m●de it but the Kings Law that now reigneth and beareth his sense 2. To ju●●●fie our obedience to a Law it is not necessary that we prove every Phrase in that Law to be fitly expressed 3. But examine it well and try whether it be not also sit and laudable 1. There are three things conjoined in the Oaths in question 1. A testimony Assertory or a promise 2. An Oath 3. An Imprecation The Assertory Testimony is here the first thing intended and the Oath and Imprecation are but as a means to make that Testimony or promise valid 2. The published Doctrine of England in the 39 Articles the Book of Ordination c. is that the Holy Scriptures contain all things necessary to Salvation as being God's Law or Rule of our Faith and Life All our Duty to God is there commanded All the Promises on which we hope are there contained all the Punishments which the perjur'd or any sinner must feel and should fear are there threatned Therefore 3. The Laying on the Hand and Kissing the Book is an Action directly related to the Imprecation and not to the Oath but only by consequence as the Imprecation is subservient to the Oath as the Oath is to the Assertion So that this is the plain Paraphrase of the whole I do believe that God the Ruler of all the world is the Judge of secrets which are above mans Judgement the Searcher of hearts and the hater avenger of Perjury according to this His holy Word by which He governs us And to this God I appeal as to the Truth of this my T●stimony cons●ning my self to lose all the benefit of his promises to the just and to bear all the punishments here threatned to the Perjured if I lie And what can be said more fitly 1. To own the Protestant Doctrine that the Scripture is God's perfect Word that the evil to be feared and the good to be hoped for is all there contained and is all the fu●fi●ling of that Word 2 And to put the word in its due subordination to GOD And our ordinary Form of Swearing sheweth this So help you God and the Contents of this Book Whether you will call this Swearing upon or by the Gospel or call it a Corporal Oath or a Spiritual Oath is only de nomine and is nothing to the matter thus truly described Sacramentum signifieth the Oath it self and Ad s●ncta Evangelia is a fit Phrase or if supra Sacramenta signifie the two Sacraments of the Gospel it can mean no more than As one that by the Reception of the Sacrament doth profess to believe this Gospel to be true I do renounce the B●nefits of it If I lie And in this sense it has been some mens custom to receive the Sacrament when they would solemnly Swear Object V. Some seem to object against Kissing the Book as having the greater appearance of giving too much to it or putting some adoration on it and because this Ceremony of kissing is held to be of later date than laying on the hand Answ The Ceremony signifieth that I love approve the Gospel and place the hope of my salvation in it And the publick Doctrine of the Kingdom before cited sheweth as a full Exposition what we ascribe to it But as some scrupulous Brethren in Scotland gratify the Papists by rejecting the Oath of Supremacy which is the most thorny hedge against them and this while they cry out against Popery so others would gratify the Papists by sugg●sting that we give too much to the Bible and adore it when the very sum of Englands Protestantism is their just ascribing to the Holy Scriptures its Sufficiency as to all things necessary to Salvation Thus Satan undoeth still by over-doing Object VI. But Laying on the hand and kissing the Book seem of the same nature with the Cross in Baptism other signific●nt ●●remonies and an Oath is part of the Worship of God therefore not to be taken with these ceremonies or else will seem to justifie the other Answ 1. Significant Words Gestures or Actions are not therefore evil because they are significant unless bruitishness be a vertue nor because any call them by the name of Ceremonies else that name might be put upon any thing to deprive us of our liberty Therefore I can judge of no Ceremony by that general name alone till it be named it self in specie 2. And of the Cross there are these notorious differences in the case 1. The Cross is an Image used in Gods Worship though not a permanent yet a transient Image and used as an Image of the Cross of Christ though but in water or oyl And God hath more specially forbidden images used in His Worship than He hath done a professing significant word gesture or action which is no image nor used as such 2. The Cross seems to be a third Sacrament of the Covenant of Grace while it is used as a Symbol of Christianity and a dedicating sign as the Cannon-calleth it by which before the Church there is made a solemn self-Obligation as sacramentally to Renounce the Devil the world the flesh and manfully to fight under Christs banner c. Implying our trust and hope in Christ crucified for the benefits of His death So that if it be not a compleat third Sacrament it hath so much of that which is proper to a Sacrament that for my part I dare not use it And as I think the King would not