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A54038 The great question concerning the lawfulnes or unlawfulnes of swearing under the gospel stated and considered of for the satisfaction of such as desire to scan the thing in the weight of God's spirit and to see the true and clear determination of it in his un-erring light / by Isaac Penington the younger. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1661 (1661) Wing P1171; ESTC R24053 8,575 18

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this Estate which they that hearkened unto did not remain in the Fall with the rest but felt the Power of that which reproved and checked them circumcising their Hearts and in their Obedience thereto justifying them in their Consciences before God 3. There was an Estate of shadowy Redemption which was not the true Estate of Redemption it self or they the true People which were to be redeemed but a shadow of it the Redemtion a shadow of the Redeemed People a shadow of the Way and Path of Life wherein were Figures of the Heavenly Substance the Heavenly People the Heavenly Things the Heavenly Inheritance the Heavenly Food c. But all these Figures in and under the Law were not the true Heavenly and Invisible Things themselves but outward and visible Signs and Representations of them 4. There was and blessed be the Lord now at length after the great long and dark night of Apostacy again is brought forth an Estate of True Redemption wherein the Soul is brought back from the Death from the Captivity from the Fall from the Deceit and from the Shadows into the Truth into the pure Life into the Innocency into the Uprightness wherein Christ the Power of God is witnessed and the Soul new formed in his pure Image and become a new Creature having a new Eye a new Ear a new Heart a new Nature a new Life and Spirit in the newness of which Life it is to live and walk a new Course and Conversation a new Place to walk and have its Conversation in even in that very Heaven from whence it looks for the Saviour wherein also all old things which came in by the Fall and all the old shadows of the Law are to pass away and in this state all things to become new And this is not only to be expected in the perfection of this state but belongs in its measure and degree to the very beginning of it for even so soon as a man is engrafted into Christ and can be said to be in Christ even then he is a new Creature and all things then begin to become new unto him and he is then to begin departing from all the old things both of the Natural or Heathenish state and of the Jewish state until he hath left them all behind The Apostle saith expresly If any man be in Christ he is a new Creature Old things are passed away all things are become new Christ the Lord and Master of all Believers who himself was not of the World calleth all His Disciples and Followers out of the World How out of the World doth He call them from having any being or commerce in the Earth or in the World Nay not so but to come out of the evil and corrupt state practices wayes of the World out of the Earthly Wayes of the Heathens out of the Earthly Ordinances and Observations of the Jewes yea even out of every thing in both which was not of the Father but of the World and this made them a gazing stock to both and the scorn and hatred of both where-ever they came These are the four Estates or Conditions of Mankind since the Creation in one of which all men that ever were have been to be found and according to the Estate and Condition wherein Man is found is the Law of God to him and His Requirings of him Now let any man in the Fear of the Lord God weigh and consider to which sort or sorts of these an Oath was useful in it self and allowed by God and to which not Was it useful in the Innocent state or did God appoint it there when man could not but speak Truth or is it useful in the Redeemed Estate where a greater Bond is received and professedly held forth than the Innocency of Mans Nature was Is not Christ the Truth the Substance Is not he that is in Him the New-Creature Were not all the Oaths and Shadows of the Law to last till Christ the Substance came Is not this the Bond of the Gospel and doth not this seal Truth and keep to Truth more firmly than the Oath under the Law could And the greater Bond being come doth not the lesser Bond which signified it flee away and vanish and the use of it now become both needless and unlawful Men may reason subtilly and perswade strongly against the Truth but we know certainly and infallibly in the Light of the Lord that the use of an Oath was not for Man in Innocency nor for Man under the power and vertue of the Redemption by Christ which brings Man back into the Truth into the Innocency and into that Life and Strength which preserves in the Truth and Innocency but for fallen Man for Man erred from the Truth and Covenant of God And it is very manifest to us that for a Disciple of Christ who hath received the Law from his Lips against Swearing to be brought back again to Swearing the bond of Man in the fallen state and under the Law is no lesse than a denial of Christ who is his Life and Redeemer out of the fallen state and who also is the Substance which ends the Oaths and he that hath ever known the pure Power of His Life and received the pure Law thereof in the clear Openings of his Spirit must not depart from thence from the feeling of that into the fleshly reasonings into consultations with the fleshly-wise part which will be sure to give such Interpretations of Scriptures as may avoid the Crosse but keep to that Power which begat him and to that Principle wherein he was begotten and there he shall never be able to get beyond the Yea and Amen in Christ beyond the Confessing of the Truth in the Presence and Life of it which is the end and substance of Swearing under the Law and therefore the Apostle Paul who several Times and in several Cases relates to the Prophecies of the Prophets who foretold of things under the Gospel in Law-phrases renders the word Confess instead of Swear as may appear by comparing Rom. 14. 11. and Philip. 2. 11. with Isa 45. 23. That which the Law called Swearing the Gospel calls Confessing each of them speaking of the same thing in the proper dialect of each which Confessing in the Life in the Truth in the renewed Principle is the weight and substance of that whereof the Oath was but a shadow For what is the substance and intent of an Oath is not the intent of it to bind to the speaking or performing of Truth And what is it that binds is it the shadow or the substance is it the words of an Oath or the sense and weight of the thing upon the spirit It was not the form of an Oath but the weight and substance hid underneath which bound the Jew under the Law and if there be more weight and substance in the Yea and Nay of a Disciple under the Gospel it must needs be more binding to them and hath
The GREAT QUESTION Concerning The LAVVFULNES OR UNLAVVFULNES OF SWEARING Under The GOSPEL Stated and Considered of For the Satisfaction of such as desire to scan the Thing in the Weight of God's Spirit and to see the true and clear Determination of it in His un-erring Light By Isaac Penington the Younger London Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the ●●●●k-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1●●● The great Question concerning the Lawfulness or Unlawfulness of Swearing under the Gospel stated and considered of c. Quest VVHether it be lawful for Christians who know Christ the Substance of all the Shadows under the Law and are in the New Covenant to Swear upon weighty occasions as it was lawful for the Jews to do under the Old Covenant or Whether Christ alloweth his Disciples to swear in solemn Cases as Moses did allow his Disciples Answ For the clearing of this weighty Controversie to all such as singly desire to know the Truth as it is in Jesus in this particular that their hearts may bow to Him therein and not be overtaken with the Reasonings and Subtilties of the Carnal Mind which never knew nor can know the Power but hath alwayes been and still is setting up dead Images of God's Truths and of his Worship out of the Power these few things following would be considered of First What an Oath is or The nature of a right and true Oath under the Law Secondly The ground or occasion of its Institution Thirdly The Cases wherein an Oath was to be used Fourthly The proper end and service of an Oath Fifthly The sutableness of its nature to its end and service Lastly The persons to whom the use of an Oath was proper in it self and intended and allowed by God and whether there be any persons to whom it is not proper and to whom the Lord doth not allow it This last is the main and will itself determine the thing but yet a brief Consideration of the former may not be unprofitable to make way for a clearer leading and insight into it First As touching an Oath what it is or the nature of it A true and lawful Oath under the Law was an Engagement or Bond upon the Soul Numb 30. 2. by the Name of the Lord Deut. 10. 20. to the speaking of Truth in things affirmed and to the performance of Truth in things promised It was as a Seal to bind fallen man man fallen from the Truth from the Uprightness to Truth in his Words and Promises either to God or man This is the nature use of an Oath to wit to bind the Soul to Truth to be such an Engagement upon the Soul as if there be any fear of God there it cannot but dread to break knowing that the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Secondly The ground or occasion of an Oath is the Fall of Man from Truth from Innocency from the Uprightness which engaged him to Truth before his Fall This made the Jews stand in need of this Bond under the Law in their Purposes and Promises towards God and the same thing likwise made them stand in need of it one from another to Ratifie and Confirm Truth between them Thirdly The Cases wherein an Oath was to be used which were chiefly these four 1. In case of a Promise or Vow to God That the Truth Integrity and plain Intention of the Heart might stand and there might be no departing therefrom in the thing promised either to God or man an Oath in that state was found useful to bind the Soul thereto 2. In case of Promise to man 3. In case of Pronouncing or Declaring the Truth of a Thing which was weighty that there might be a clear and satisfactory ground of belief 4. In case of Controversie between Parties where the Controversie could not be determined but by taking the Confession of the one Party for Truth there that Party was to seal his Confession with an Oath and so the other to rest satisfied therewith and the Controversie thereupon end Fourthly The end of an Oath which is for final Confirmation and avoiding of all further Strife and Contention about the Thing sworn to By binding the Thing promised or affirmed with an Oath the thing is confirmed and now there is no more strife in the heart concerning the thing if relating to God or between man and man in things relating to them but the striving nature is bound down by the Oath of God wherewith the Thing is ratified and so the Doubt and Uncertainty removed and the Contest ended Thus of right it ought to be and is where the Oath is forcible and in its proper service Fifthly The sutableness of its nature to the end aimed at by it Man out of the Christian Life can go no further than to engage himself by the fear and dread of that God whom he professeth to worship and serve and who cannot but be jealous of his Name and Honour and ready to vindicate the taking of it in vain Man under the Law could not bind himself to God in any promise or service more than thus nor can there be any greater Bond or Seal of Truth given by one man to another in the fallen state than this And he that will venture to break this what but Deceit and Treachery can be expected from him insomuch as no other Engagement from him can be of weight he hereby manifesting the want of that in his mind and spirit whereupon all ties are to fasten Sixtly The persons to whom the use of an Oath was proper and lawful and for whom it was instituted and whether there be any persons to whom it is not proper and lawful and for whose use it was not instituted To find out this distinctly and truly we must consider the several Conditions of Man since the Creation and observe to which of those it is useful and proper in it self and allowed by God and to which it is not useful in it self nor allowed by God There have been four Estates or Conditions of Mankind since the Creation 1. An Estate of Innocency an Estate of Integrity of Purity of Righteousness wherein man could not lye or deceive but his Promises to God and his words to men must needs be Yea and Amen for it was impossible to man who was made in God's Image which is Truth to lye or deceive until the Deceit entred him and drew him out of the Truth 2. There was and still is an Estate of deep Captivity wherein this Truth and Innocency was wholly lost and man wholly corrupted in his spirit and nature and wholly degenerated from God This was the Estate of the Heathen who knew not God generally nor desired after Him but walked in the vanity of their minds and were given up to their own hearts lusts Yet among some of these the Eternal Principle of Life was stirring which did check them and offer to guide them out of