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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23601	The swearer's doom; or, A discourse setting forth the great sinfulness and danger of rash and vain swearing. By John Rost M.A. rector of Offwell and Gittisham in Devon	Rost, John, d. 1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing R1987A; ESTC R203434	36,689	74

of the vilest sinners of the profanest Wretches and will be sure to punish him with the greatest and utmost severity Which passage in Deuteronomy I say I made choice of to illustrate this matter by not only because these words The Lord will not hold him guiltless and these The Lord will not spare are the very same figure and Phrase of the very same Import and Signification But also and that chiefly because the whole Character that is there given of a most vile and wicked man of one who was arrived to the highest pitch of wickedness and who was hardned in his sin and Impenitence doth more exactly agree to one that is a customary Swearer then to any other sort of Sinners For where shall we find a root that beareth Gall and Wormwood but in that heart out of which continually proceed abominable Oaths and Curses Who is there that is a greater contemner of the Curses which God hath denounced against obstinate Sinners then the profane Swearer Who more apt to say in his heart I shall have peace tho' he walk in the Imagination of his own wicked heart than he Who more ready to add drunkenness to thirst then such an one for tho' perhaps there have been many drunkards who have not been customary Swearers yet I believe there was seldom or never a common Swearer but he was a common drunkard too And therefore certainly of all such we may say that the Lord will not Spare them but the Anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against them and all the curses and threatnings that are written in the Book of God shall light upon them And therefore we may well apply all those passages in which Swearing is forbidden indefinitely and where the persons guilty are threatned not only to perjur'd persons but to rash and vain Swearers as Hosea 4.2 By Swearing and Lying and Killing and Stealing and committing Adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood In which place Swearing is not only joyned with the greatest sins but placed as the Captain and Leader of them And Jer. says Chap. 23.10 because of Swearing the Land Mourneth and Zechariah says Chap. 5.3 That the Swearer shall be cut off by the Curse And the Son of Sirach saith Eccles 23.11 that a man that useth much Swearing shall be filled with Iniquity and the Plague shall never depart from his house if he offend his sins shall be upon him And if he acknowledg not his sin he maketh a double Offence and if he Swear in vain he shall not be Innocent but his house shall be full of Calamities and v. 12. he saith there is a word that is Clothed with Death God grant it be not found in the Heritage of Jacob for all such things shall be far from the Godly and they shall not wallow in their sins By the word clothed with death and which Godly men dread and abhor he means intemperate Swearing as is evident from what follows v. 13. use not thy mouth to intemperate Swearing for therein is the World of sin So that we may say of Swearing as the Psalmist did of Cursing which is the nearest of kin to it for there are few Oaths especially such as proceed from rash Anger and passion which may not be said to be at least virtually and implicitly Curses likewise viz. That it shall prove the greatest plague and mischief to the person himself that is guilty of it Psal 109.17 As he loved Cursing so let it come unto him As he delighted not in Blessing so let it be far from him As he clothed himself with Cursing like as with a Garment so let it come into his Bowels like Water and like Oyl into his Bones let it be unto him as the Garment that Covereth him and for a Girdle wherewith he is girded continually For as God hath declar'd that he is jealous of the honour of his name and that he will not hold him guiltless that taketh it in vain i. e. will look him as highly guilty as a most vile and abominable Sinner So he will not fail to punish him accordingly without sincere repentance and deep Humiliation For as he has revealed his Wrath from Heaven against all such profaneness and Impiety so the time will come when he will pour forth Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon all such as are guilty of it And tho' the Swearer may not draw down divine vengeance upon his head in this World in which all things happen to all alike and there is one Event to the righteous and to the wicked to the good and to the sinner to him that Sweareth and to him that feareth an Oath as Solomon says Eccles 9.2 yet he shall not without great repentance escape that most Tremendous curse which God will pronounce against all impenitent sinners Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Where they may perhaps curse and swear in the Anguish of their Souls and bitterness of their Spirits but it shall not in the least Mitigate or Asswage their Torments The Application Having thus shown unto you the sinfulness and danger of this sin of vain and rash Swearing I shall press and enforce the Apostle's Dehortation by way of Application Above all things my Brethren swear not Among all the gifts that God hath bestowed upon Men there is hardly one more useful or wonderful than Speech by which Men communicate their minds to each other and discover the greatest secrets and without which Mankind would have no more society or commerce than the Beasts of the Earth or the Fowls of the Air. The gift of Speech is a most divine thing and full of wonder and therefore ought to be used for the praise and honour of him that made it and 't is the height of folly and ingratitude to dishonour and abuse him by it The Tongue was designed to be an Instrument to set forth and celebrate the praise and glory of God Therefore says David Psal 34.11 I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall be continually in my mouth and Psal 51.15 O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise and Psal 71.8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day long And therefore it must needs be a wicked and heinous thing for Men to dishonour God by that most useful Instrument the Tongue which was created on purpose to set forth and celebrate his honour Thus St. James having asserted cap. 3.6 That the Tongue i. e. a wicked loose filthy unbridled Tongue is a fire a world of iniquity that defileth the whole body and that 't is an unruly evil full of deadly poison gives this reason for it that it is oftentimes made an Instrument of cursing when it was designed only for blessing v. 9. therewithal we bless God even the Father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God out of