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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61835	A sermon concerning svvearing preached before the King's Maiesty in Christ-Church Oxon, May the 12, 1644 / by W. Strode ...	Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5985; ESTC R15297	17,733	31

Obligatory Law shewes the first and Conscience tells us concerning the second that one Sinne cannot oblige us to commit another nor a sinne in word to second it with a sinne in worke for sinne ought to be broken off as soone as possibly it may Wherefore David without scruple blesseth God and Abigail for staying him in the prosecution of a rash and bloody Oath 1. Sam. 25. cap. To whom should an injust Oath oblige us to God or to Man whether it were taken Rashly in Error or Passion whether it were taken violently by Coaction or willingly with Deliberation or mixtly betwixt Will and Force for Deliverance out of present trouble yet if the Matter or End be unrighteous or impedient to Charity certainly it obliges not to God because it was contrary to Gods will which ought to take place of our owne upon second and better Thoughts Much lesse can it oblige to Man especially when it is impos'd Fraudulently or Compulsively or without just Authority because the Imposer deserves to be deceiv'd and to beare the Imputation of that perjury which he obtruded on others I grant that since every Oath is of a binding Nature it cannot but some way bind the Person in himselfe either with a True Intention or with Guilt of Perjurd collusion For the Reverence due to Gods Name requires Truth of Intention but when the Matter is unrighteous Gods word forbids Execution and when by Satans device Gods Name is set up against Gods Word and Truth against Rigteousnesse no wonder if intention and execution agree not for as Truth carries the one so the other is to be swayed by Righteousnesse In this absur'd opposition which ought to be prevented by not Swearing the Swearer is so intangled that which way soever he turne he is actually Perjur'd by Swearing either what he intends not or what he ought not to performe but to falsifie though he intended And therefore since in this Case Juramentum ligat non obligat since the unlawfull Oath binds the Conscience with Guilt of a bad Promise though truly made but not to more guilt of wicked Performance it remaines that the Oath past be recalled by Repentance hearty Repentance for shrinking under Gods Triall for taking his Sacred Name in Vaine and incurring a Denyall of him before Men Now at length since a firme Oath must be joyntly held up with these holy Conditions appointed by God it selfe so upheld must needs be Holy If rightly taken 't is a peice of Religious worship and not without faire ground from other Scripture Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and serve him and Sweare by his Name Deut. 6.13 there Swearing is commanded and plac'd as the next Neighbour to divine Service For to give God the better to end all Strife at the sound of his Name as duely ascribing to him all Power Knowledge and Truth is to yeeld him Honour and Reverence For verily a Man sweareth by the Greater Heb. 6.16 per quem veneratur aut diligit by whom he honours or loves saith St Jerome an Oath saith Aristotle is most Honourable as being a Token of divinity therefore C. Caligula ambitious of divine worship publish'd an Edict throughout his Empire that Men should accustome to sweare by his Name likewise when Demosthenes swore by them that ventured their lives at Marathon {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as if the men ●ould be Saincted for that Expedition he stir'd up the ●●●its of his Citizens more with that one word then with his whole Oration besides So then an Oath ap●●ares to be the badge of Reverence God hath not onely allow'd and commanded an Oath ●n Generall but expresly and carefully injoyn'd it in many ●articular Cases As in case of Theft Ex. 22.11 When ●●●ds intrusted miscarry an oath of the Lord shall be be●●me them that he hath not put his hands to his Neigh●●ors goods In case of Murder Deut. 21.6 v. When a ●●n is slaine all the Elders of the City next to the slaine shall ●●sh their Hands over the Heifer and they shall Testifie and ●●● Our Hands have not shed this Blood neither have our eyes seen it be mercifull ô Lord In case of Adultery Num. 19. If the Spirit of Jealousie come upon a Man the Priest will charge the Woman with an Oath According to the ●●tent of these Instances are the Oathes of Supremacy ●llegiance the Oath ex officio in spirituall Courts and the Oathes in Temporall usually administer'd for the ●●rance of Fidelity and Truth Likewise all sacred Con●acts betwixt God and us are tied with this Knot Bap●●sme Confirmation Marriage Consecration Orders Vowes are all celebrated either with an Oath or with ●●t which is Equivalent the Name of the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost I could bring a Jury of Ex●mples for godly Swearing Abraham swore his servant in 24. S. Paul in divers Epistles the Angell by him 〈◊〉 lives for ever Rev. 10. God himselfe to Abraham ●● 22. By my selfe I have sworne saith the Lord If ●●●re be any force in Examples these above all others are most prevalent It is Remarkeable that none are absolutely averse from all Swearing but the reputed Enemies of Obedience Despisers of Order Friends to Lying and Hypocrisie who having now gotten some power into their hands are become the greatest Exacters of Swearing Whereby it is the more evident that Judiciall Swearing is of necessary use The chiefest Objection against all Oathes is drawne from the words before my Text ye have heard it said Thou shalt not for sweare but shalt performe or render to the Lord thine Oathes but I say unto you Sweare not at all neither by Heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by that which followes To answer this the Scope of the Context must be exactly weighed The Jewes by Pharisaicall Tradition or wicked practice understood the places of * Scripture summ'd up by our Saviour to be first a Prohibition of Swearing falsly by Gods Name onely secondly an allowance of Swearing by Gods Name Truely False Swearing by the name of Creatures they did not esteeme Perjury True Swearing by the Name of God though needlesse they did not esteeme unlawfull whereas the same Scripture which forbids to sweare by his Name Falsly forbids also to Prophane his Name Lev. 19.12 v. according to the sense of the third Commandement Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in Vaine for Vaine includes both False and needlesse and againe the same Scripture which allows Swearing by his great Name interdicts the Name of others Deut. 6 13.v Thou shalt sweare by his Name and ye shall not goe after other Gods Wherefore that corrupt Interpretation Christ clearly purges and in one word perfects the Law Sweare not at all As he that speakes not at all cannot Lye so he that sweares not at all cannot Forsweare nor offend in the manner saith S. Bernard So then with one blow Christ cuts of foure Obliquities not