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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27406	A second testimony concerning oaths and swearing in answer to a book entituled The case of the Quakers relating to oathes stated by J.S., or, An appendix to a book written in the year 1668 in answer to Allan Smallwood ... wherein is fully cleared the command of Christ and practice of the apostles concerning swearing from the corrupt glosses, limited sense and meaning of J.S. / by Gervase Benson.	Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing B1901; ESTC R23681	17,348	24

Father so also Rom. 10. 9 10. So that it is evident that Confession under the Gospel is answerable to Swearing under the Law for by confessing to God and appealing to him in Witness bearing his Power and Omniscience is as much acknowledged in discerning whether Truth be spoken in Witness-bearing under the Gospel as it was under the Law by wearing for though the Form which was shadowy changed yet the Worship it self which was the Substance remaineth and therefore if Times and Dispensations be rightly discerned the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament do agree And as for that Text of Scripture quoted by J. S. out of Isa. 19. 18. In that Day shall five Cities in the Land of Egypt speak the Language of Canaan and swear c. Answer This Scripture hath not Reference to all the People of the Gentiles as is evident from the Words themselves which only speaks of five Cities in Egypt whereas the Gentiles inhabited many Nations neither doth it altogether relate to Gospel-Times when the whole People called the Gentiles were to be received as the People of God but is rather a Prophecy of the joyning of the People that inhabited those Cities in Egypt unto the Jews and owning of their Worship by speaking their Language by swearing to the Lord of Hosts and bringing their Sacrifices to the Altar of the Lord after the Manner of the Jews who bef●re were Strangers to the VVorship of the true God and that by so doing it should be a Sign and a VVitness unto the Lord of Hosts of their Conversion unto him for these Prophecies had a double Intendment and Accomplishment viz. One in the material Temple under the first Covenant another in the spiritual Temple the Church under the Gospel or New-Covenant for it is evident that before the Coming of the Messiah there was an Association of some of the Gentiles unto the Church of the Jews for after the rebuilding of the Temple and before the Death of Christ there was a Number of Proselites out of divers Nations both for that by Reason of the many Dispersions of the Jews in the Captivity and their Commerce with other Nations their Customs and Religion were more commonly known and because these times were to be as a Preparative to the general Calling of the Gentiles It is also evident that upon the good Escape of the Jews in Babylon many turned to their Religion and the Scriptures shew to us several Examples Esther 8. 17. Acts 2. 10. Mat. 23. 15. yea the Pharisees took Pride in converting others to Judaism so that these Prophecies did not only imply a general Conversion of the Gentiles simply so as to exclude the Particular in the mean Time Therefore as the Prophesies aforesaid had a double Meaning so also they had a double Accomplishment the one in the material Temple under the Law during which Dispensation he that blessed himself in the Earth should bless himself in the God of Truth and he that did swear in the Earth should swear by the God of Truth under which Dispensation there was also an Altar Sacrifices and Oblations c. The other in the spiritual Temple the Church under the Gospel under which the true Worshippers do worship the Father in Spirit and Truth John 4. 22. By praising God in the Spirit and confessing unto his Name believing in Christ Jesus witnessing the Truth according to Christ's Command let your Yea be Yea and Nay Nay for when these Prophecies were given sorth the Gospel-Worship was not then fully revealed see 1 Pet. 11 12. And therefore as the Prophecies had Relation to the Time before Christ's Sufferings th●y had then Relation to the Worship which was then required and practised under the Law but when the Law was changed there was then also a Change of those External Rites and Shadowy Things viz. Cursing Swearing Altars Sacrifices Oblations c. which were not of the Essence and Substance of the true Worship of God although the true Worship of God changed not and it is evident Dan. 9. 26. 27 28 where it is said That the Messiah shall confirm the Covenant with many for one Week and in the midst of the Week he shall cause the Sacrifices and the Oblations to cease for in Christ all Signs had their Accomplishment for the Apostle saith Signs are not for them that believe but for them that believe not 1 Cor. ●4 22. So that J. S. from these Prophecies might as well conclude that Christians in Gospel-times ought to have Altars offer Sacrifices and Oblations as the Jews had and did under the Law as that Christians may lawfully swear but Christians in Christ Jesus do believe and know that those Sacrifices in which there is a Remembrance again of Sins the Lord under the New Testament hath not required and that in Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices for Sia the Lord hath no Pleasure for all those ca●nal Ordinances were imposed as saith the Apostle only until the Time of Reformation see Heb. 9. 10. Heb. 10. 3 4 c. So that we having a positive Command from Jesus Christ viz. swear not at all c Mat. ● 34. and that from the Mouth of two or three Witnesses every Word is to be established and there being no Command from Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New Testament who is the Christians only Law giver Law-maker and Prince in Matters of Faith and Worship we are not bound as Christians to the Observation of any Command that comes either from Moses or any other that is not our Law-maker and Master and it is observable that one of the most solemn Laws contained in the two Tables viz. that which ordained the seaventh Day to be kept Holy Day unto which is adjoyned an unchangeable Reason namely because God rested that Day when he had made the visible World yet this Law is annulled and abrogated amongst all Christians even from the Beginning of Christianity for Want of Ratification of it from our Lord and Master Jesus Christ who is our Law-maker and Prince And therefore Christians in Christ Jesus and in the Faith of him having no Command or Example from Christ to swear in any case I do conclude that Swearing in the Time of the Gospel is no Evidence of the Conversion of 〈◊〉 People unto God neither is Swearing by the Lord of Hosts that pure Language and undefiled Religion which was at the first revealed unto Adam in Paradice for it is evident that Swearing hath defiled many but pure Religion and true Witness-bearing never did defile any But how should a better Account of divine Mysteries be expected from J. S. that knows so little of them as his Writings do plainly shew And now I proceed to his 5th and last Argument in the first Section of his said Book Arg. 5. That the holyest Christian may lawfully and laudably do that which by the Spirit of Christ that spoke in the Prophets hath made the doing thereof in Gospel-Times the