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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25667	The anti-Quaker, or, A compendious answer to a tedious pamphlet entituled, A treatise of oaths subscribed by a jury of 12 Quakers, whose names are prefixed to it, together with the fore-man of that jury ... William Penn : alledging several reasons why they ... refuse to swear, which are refuted, and the vanity of them demonstrated both by Scripture, reason, and authority of ancient and modern writers / by Misorcus, a professed adversary of vain swearing in common discourse and communication.	Misorcus.	1676 (1676)	Wing A3506; ESTC R165	32,510	58

Swear by the Name of God to the prohibitive command of our Saviour let me premise this for an undeniable Maxime or Thesis That the Precepts of the Gospel are not repugnant Praecepta Evangelii non contrariantur praeceptis legis Aug. or contrary to the Commands of the Law This Position is defended and proved at large by S. Augustine in his Nineteenth Book against Faustus the Heretick Cap. 16. What the Law commands the Gospel does not forbid and what the one forbids the other does not allow but both meet together in a sweet consent and harmony of Truth and as it were kiss and embrace each other so that the Gospel in a manner bespeaks the Law in the words of that Parasitical Servant in the Comedie to his Master Quod ais aio quod negas nego what you command I commend what you condemn I disallow and there is no surer or better way of expounding the Law than by the Gospel and of the Gospel than by the Law according to that known saying of Irenaeus l. 4. c. 63. Secundùm Scripturas expositio legitima est sine periculo It is the safest course and method for the ending of Disputes to expound Scripture by Scripture one Text by another if there be a seeming difference in the former from the later Now I must put this Question to a dissenting Quaker to any one of the People so called Dost thou imagine or darest thou say that Moses and the Prophets borrowed not their Light of Revelation or Doctrine from Christ the everlasting Sun of Righteousness who likewise being the Eternal Word of God Mal. 4.2 spake to them by his Spirit and dictated to them what we find in their Writings as Rules of our Faith and Manners I presume thou wilt not say it and unless thou wilt assert that they were not true Stars but only slimie Meleors coloured with shews and pretences of Truth and that their Doctrine is false unless thou assert this which is an horrid and hainous crime even blasphemy but to think and I know thou wilt not then thou must set thy Seal to this undeniable Truth that in some cases it is not unlawful or sinful to use an Oath according to that of the Prophet Jeremiah in his Exhortation to revolted Israel Thou shalt swear Ierem. 4. ● The Lord liveth in Truth in Judgement and in Righteousness i. e. When thou makest or takest an Oath Iudicio caret juramentum incautum veritate juramentum mendax Iustitia juramentum iniquum illicitum Aquin. thou shalt swear by the Eternal Lord of Life who is a discerner of the mind and heart to whom are clearly known the inward motions of it who will likewise severely punish us if we be false in our sayings and unjust in our doings This profession we make when we invocate him in taking of an Oath being called to it by the Magistrate and hereby God's name is sanctified it being an extraordinary part of God's worship but with this proviso That the three forenamed Cautions or Circumstances mentioned before by the Prophet do attend it They that thus Swear by Gods Name shall be commended Psal 63.12 i.e. They that swear in weighty matters when they are urged to it either for the confirmation of the Truth or to maintain their suspected Innocency and oblige themselves by an Oath before a Magistrate to do that which is righteous just honest and good such men sin not neither offend against our Saviour's or S. James his Prohibition Swear not chap. 5.12 by which is condemned and forbid only rash and inconsiderate false and dishonest Swearing approved not of by the Laws of men and condemned by the Word of God by which the contrary is commended Isa 65.16 He that Sweareth in the earth shall Swear by the God of Truth To my former Position and Question proposed to a Scrupulous Quaker or rather Anabaptist I shall add another Quaere which I desire him to consider it is this Whether Christ's Assertion and Testimony of Himself be not true Matth. 5.17 I came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it I cannot expect if I should talk with him but that he would say in his proper Language Yea. This being granted as he dares not deny it then I would reply and tell him That if Christ came not to destroy the Law then he forbade not what the Law commands and if he came to fulfil it then he must acknowledge that Christ did that for which he came into the World for his coming was not in vain or fruitless and that He in whom dwelleth the fulness of tine Godhead Gal. 2.9 i.e. who is perfect God and man in one person and in whom there is a fulness of Wisdom and all heavenly Grace fulfilled the Law two manner of ways Aquin. 12.101 Q. 2. Art opere ore by his Works and Words or Divine Doctrine First by his Works or Deeds in that to leave us an Example of a meek heart and sound obedience he submitted himself to the Ceremonial Law being circumcis'd the Eighth day c. So likewise to satisfie the rigour of God's Justice he fully performed the Moral by his Active obedience doing what the Lord required of us to be done thereby to bring us to Heaven and by his Passive suffering for our Sins to redeem us from the pains and torments of Hell Verum legis sensum exptimendo Secondly he fulfilled the Law by his heavenly Doctrine this he did by explaining the full scope the intent or meaning of the Law as in those two Cases of Murder and Adultery Praecepta legis ordinando ut tutiùs observaretur quod lex vetuer at Aquin Matth. 5.21 27. and by prescribing Rules for the better observing of the Laws Affirmative and Negative commands Thus because the Law forbids all kinds of Perjury Thou shalt not Swear by my Name falsly Lev. 6.5 that this Prohibition might be the better kept and observed and men secured from the danger of so great a sin in regard that men accustomed to Swearing account Perjury but a light and frivolous thing Christ therefore in his Sermon upon the Mount gave to his Auditors or Disciples a safe and wholsom admonition Swear not at all i.e. never nisi in causâ necessitatis as the Learned Zanchy upon that Text except in cases of Necessity Vbi gloria Domini vindicanda … t fratris aedifcatio promovenda when and where the glory of God is to be vindicated by a bold defence of the Truth opposed and when our neighbours welfare may thereby be promoted and either our own credit or reputation preserved St. Chrysostome himself who was a rigid enemy to Swearing i.e. to vain and idle Oaths in mutual and private Conference and in whose mistaken and wrested Sayings the Pen-man of the Treatise against Oaths does much * The Author has stuff'd two and twenty Pages in his Treatise with Citations out of that most Eloquent Father which