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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65844	The case of the Quakers concerning oaths defended as evangelical in answer to a book, entituled, The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated by J.S.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1899; ESTC R19753	38,726	52

Argument he saith The Spirit of Christ which was in the Prophets fore-told That in the Time of the Gospel the Lord's people should Swear by his Name as an Evidence of their Conversion to him Answ. This we also deny together with his high Applause of Swearing as an Evidence of man's Conversion in the Time of the Gospel and as Divine Service and Homage and as denoting an eminent Act of saving Confession to God and as a part of Divine Worship and as a Sign Witness and Argument of Egypt 's Conversion and the Language of Canaan a pure Language which God promised to restore to all Nations at the Coming of Christ yea the Condition of God's accepting men for his people the Condition of accepting us as sincere Disciples the Way of God's People as may be seen in his 5th 6th 9th 10th 11th and 14th pages All these high Commendations he attributes to Swearing by the Lord As if all those that so Swear must needs be such great Converts divine Worshippers attained to the pure Language of Cananan highly accepted of God sincere Disciples in God's Way c. Mark here Swearing by the Lord is this man's Gospel and the Condition of all his Felicity but such Ignorance and silly Stuff what rational man cannot see His Proof is Isa 45. 23. and Chap. 19. 18. In the first it is said I have Sworn by my self the Word is gone out of my Mouth in Righteousness and shall not return that to me every Knee shall bow every Tongue shall swear In the second it is said In that day shall five Cities in the Land of Egypt speak the Language of Canaan and swear to the Lord of Hosts There shall be an Altar to the Lord in the midst of the Land of Egypt c. Here he applies Swearing to Gospel-Times so takes Swearing as literally under the Gospel to continue as under the Law but not the Altar but confesseth that the Altar here specified is no other then that which St. Paul mentions Heb. 13. 10. We have an Altar c. that is saith he Christ's Stable-Throne of Grace p. 8. So that the Altar he interprets figuratively under the Gospel but swearing literally see his Confusion Whereas if the Altar be Christ's Stable-Throne of Grace then by the same Reason he should have said that by Swearing is intended a Gospel-Confession according to the Apostle's own words Rom. 14. 11. where mentioning the Prophets words before instead of Every Tongue shall swear he saith Every Tongue shall confess to God And likewise Phil. 2. 11. And that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father It is not every Tongue shall swear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Jesus Christ is Lord but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall confess the same word that is in Rom. 10. 10. And with the Mouth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is confessed or Confession is made to Salvation And likewise in John 4. 2. Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is of God there is the same word He doth not make swearing that Jesus is the Christ that Proof nor commend swearing to God in the Gospel as an infallible Mark of man's Conversion and the Condition of God's accepting them as sincere Disciples as our Opposer doth For many both can and do Swear by God that never came to such Acceptance nor to such a Confession of Christ as is to God's Glory which proceeds from a heart that believes to Salvation For that no man can thus confess to God or say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12. 3. But many can and do Swear without the Holy Ghost therefore true Confession is Evangelical and not Swearing It is true Confession from a believing Heart is an Evidence of Men's Conversion and not making Oath or Swearing which this Man seems to confess appertains to common humane Infirmity p. 1. And what was that Infirmity upon which Swearing was occasioned under the Law but man's Diffidence Jealousie or Distrust which if they had fulfilled the Principal and Royal Law of Love both to God and one another there would have been no such occasion of Distrust Therefore Swearing was neither Moral Perpetual nor Evangelical as some suppose nor is it essential to the Divine Worship of God as this man vainly thinks which is in Spirit and Truth for that Worship was both before Swearing and is performed without Swearing That God himself swore by himself who could not swear by a greater we deny not But if this must be made an Argument that therefore in this man may imitate God who is his Maker we deny the Consequence for this were to set up a Creature in the Creator's place Nay as good an Argument did the Serpent bring when he said Ye shall be as God's c. To J. S. his saying That to Swear by the Lord of Hosts is to speak the Language of Canaan that pure Lauguage which God promised c. that pure and undefiled Religion which was at first revealed to man in Paradice p. 10. Answ. First That God promised to return to his People a pure Language we own and that they should serve him with one Consent therefore they should not need to Swear one to another or be Swearers under the Gospel Secondly Nor doth he prove by Scripture that to swear by the Lord of Hosts was that pure and undefiled Religion which was at first revealed to Man in Paradice For this is to tell the World that God taught Adam and Eve to Swear to each other in the State of Innocency when there was no Occasion of Swearing In his fifth Argument to prove Swearing in Gospel Times the Condition of God's accepting Men for his People such a Condition as upon the fulfilling thereof he will number them among his Disciples and account them his People that do viz. learn to Swear by his Name p. 11. For Proof of this erroneous Assertion he cites Jer. 12. 16. And it shall come to pass that if they will diligently learn the Way of my People to Swear by my Name the Lord liveth as they taught my People to Swear by Baal c. Answ. This was in the Prophets Time and to be fulfilled under the Law There is not the same Reason for Christians under the Gospel to swear by the Lord to divert them from Swearing by false Gods as there was in those former dayes For those that had learned to swear by Ball viz. As Baal liveth by the Life of Baal c. p. 12. which was opposed by swearing As the Lord liveth under the Law and now confessing his Name and making Confession to his Glory under the Gospel His telling us of a diligent Learning to Swear by God's Name and a learning this way of God's People c. p. 12 14 15. is as if he should tell us that to swear by the Name of the Lord is such a difficult and hard Lesson