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world_n	live_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,054	5	11.4833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39572	One antidote more, against that provoking sin of swearing, by reason of which this land now mourneth given forth from under the burden of the oppressed seed of God, by way of reply both to Henry Den's epistle about the lawfulness, antiquity, and universality of an oath, and his answers to the Quakers objections against it, recommended (by him) to all the prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint, rather then the violation of their consciences : and also to Jeremiah Ives his printed plea for swearing, entitituled, The great case of conscience opened, &c. about the lawfulness or unlawfulness of swearing, which said reply to these two opposers of the truth, as it is in Jesus, is recommended not onely to all the prisons in this city and nation, and to all such real Christians, as chuse restraint rather then the violation of their consciences, but also, to all such nominal Christians out of prison, as, rather then restrain, chuse to purchase their earthly liberties by swearing, to the violation of the command of Christ, who saith, Mat. 5.33, swaer not at all. Jam. 5.12, above all things my brethren swear not / by Samuel Fisher ...	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1054; ESTC R5750	69,157	84

so as I. I. asserts it is in our Common Courts then so many several answers as the party once sworn makes by Yea or Nay to the Judges questions so many several Oaths with the highest asseverations that can be are by him taken and so if he answer Yea or Nay an hundred times being so many times askt in the case in hand as one Witness may be at one Court he takes no less then an hundred solemn Oaths and so his first Oath he once assenting to swear like sin which is ever of a multiplying nature when man once begins to fall under it spawns it self quickly into an hundred and consideratis considerandis our Courts of Iudicature which H. D. and I. I. will both confess ought to be places of punishment for that common swearing or swearing commonly ordinarily wholly frequently as H. D. frivolously descants upon that phrase of Christ Swear not at all Mat. 5. which ordinary common frequent Swearing all men grant also Christ there forbids will rather appear to be the most common places of swearing commonly frequently ordinarily that are in all the Land beside them And besides I. I.'s instance in the Oath in our Common Law reaches not the case he brings it in evidence of for there the party answering is supposed by I. I. first to be sworn by his own consent and then to answer yea or nay but the case in hand supposes the party onely answering yea or nay to one that saies I adjure thee without shewing his consent to the others adjuration by that assenting Ceremony which I.I. when he was charged to swear declared his assent by of kissing and fingering of a Bible which if I.I. for customs sake had not done he would have found the Court he sware in would not have counted him a person sworn sufficiently to their satisfaction had they said We adjure thee we charge thee to tell us whether thou renounce the Pope and wilt be true to the King yea or nay and I.I. answered yea or I will no less t●…n an hundred times over So we see that if Christ had answered I am as Ior. Ives falsly sayes he did to the High Priest when he said I adjure thee by the living God to tell me whether thou be the Christ or not he had not sworn sith by that word I adjure thee he said in effect no more then I command or charge thee as in Gods presence as strictly as if thou hadst promised or sworn and its silly to think that Christ who sayes Swear not at all no not by Heaven for its Gods throne which whoso swears by swears by him even God that sits thereon Matth. 18. would swear by the living God that he was the Christ at the command or charge of the High-Priest that was his Inferior as being but the Type of himself to tell him whether he was so or no But secondly in very deed when all is done there 's no such matter as I. I. affirms for when the Priest barely asked him onely whether he was the Christ or not he answered I am In that place of I. I's own quoting which had he not been in haste he might have seen also Mark 14. 7. but when the Priest said I ad●…ure thee by the living God he is recorded by Matthew Mat. 26. 63. as answering not I am as I. I. saies he did but Thou saiest which seems to be a waving of all positive answer rather then such a positive answer as I am which yet had he said he had not sworn Thus as he that 's blind cannot see so he who is not cannot but see the shuffling ways whereby H D. but specially I. I. seeks to prove Christ to have sworn that he may shroud and shelter himself from the storm of his guilty Conscience under some Shrub under a shadowy shew of Christ's example when he had stooped to mans command contrarily unto Christ's The other examples from whence H. D. and I. Ives endeavour to prove the lawfulness of swearing now are those of Kings Priests Prophets righteous and holy men of God in old time as Abimelech Abraham David and others in which they belabour themselves to no purpose since this was all under the Law under which among those that were under it we deny not that swearing to be in use which hath now no use nor place among them that are not under the dominion of the Law but under Grace and the teachings power and domin●…on of Gods Grace which redeems from the strife and other fleshly works which it is one of Which consideration confutes I. I's Fifth Reason for swearing viz. Because strife continuing still there 's as much need of Oaths the use of which is to end it as ever there was quoting Heb. 6. 16. An Oath among men for confirmation is an end of all strife Rep. 1. To say nothing how much our Courts are in that case of Tythes beside the end of Oat●…s if that be the true end thereof to end strife since they use Oaths to begin the strife with for if a man will not swear how many 〈◊〉 and Ducks and Hens and Eggs and Piggs c. he hath had in so many years together they admit him not to answer to his 〈◊〉 An Oath when used to its right end i. e. to end strife is so used among men onely in the fall who live in hatred variance strife and such deeds of darkness and the flesh but not among the Saints that are saved from it and live in love and peace and do as Christ Disciples are bid to do to others as they would be done by and no evil nor injury to any which they would not have done to themselves which is the sum of the Law and the Prophets c. For here both the Law which is owned by us as good in its place but is not for the righteous but the unrighteous and murderers stealers c. hath no place nor Oaths nor Lawyers neither who can live no longer in that calling of theirs which they much corrupt and spoil as blind Priests do the Gospel then while men live in trespasses and sins For if men live by the light of Gods grace in their own hearts which hath appeared to all men bringing salvation to them from the sin leading and teaching such as learn of it to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live godly righteously and soberly in this present world they will need no longer as the World doth while it chuses to lie in Wickedness and in the bondage of its own corruption to throw away their estates on Lawyers to end their strifes about them nor to be such slaves to their own wills and lusts as to spend 20. l. upon them to recover 20. s. for themselves but will see as some have done who have been where others now are the way out of strife which is the Light and come to that love innocency honesty righteousness peace and pity to themselves and one