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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

it rather then Gods own plain Precept against Swearing Brother Pitman and Brother Shewell I Am at this time surprized with a holy passion and though Ionah could not say concerning the Gourd that he did wel to be angry yet if my experience in the Word of the Lord doth not deceive I can truly say I do wel to be angry with you who I have had a godly jealousie of all along viz. That you would be as easily perswaded to part with as unwilling to suffer for your Spiritual Liberties Oh my Brethren where is your first love How unlike the Christians in former times are you whose zeal was so hot for God that their eyes prevented the morning that thereby they might prevent the rage of the adversary who as it is now Commanded them no more to worship in the Name of the Lord I always did conclude that those that would quit the Cause of Righteousness would quit the Ways of Holiness as yesterday sad experience hath taught to the perpetual joy of your adversaries and the sadning the hearts and adding afflictions to the bonds of the Prisoners of the Lord I do therefore conjure you as you wil answer the great God another day to consider That now is the time for you to look to your Ministry and to the Flock over which the Lord hath made you overseers that you may be able through grace to say You are clear from the blood of all men and observe that God is now come to prove you to see whether you wil keep his commandements or not Remember when that Apostates Case was debated you had no zeal nor indignation against him but you smothered all with this If it were in a matter of Faith and Worship that he had fallen from you would have been as one man against it Wel behold the Lord is come home to you the matter now is purely for worshipping God now God is proving to see if you wil obey him or no and did not yesterdays work witness that you were willing to prefer the fear of a man that must dye before the fear of the great God and the fear of them that can kill the body before the fear of the Lord that can cast body and soul into Hell I have no more to say but this That your Cowardly Temporizing and complying with the precepts of Men makes me jealous that your fear towards the Lord is taught by the precepts of Men I would not be too censorious but my Grounds are great and my Bonds are my Crown but your Cowardly spirit is my great Cross you little think what a scandal it is amongst us to hear it affirmed that one of you should say You had rather a given fifty pound then haue sworn and yet swear that you swear willingly Oh for the Lords sake do somewhat that may roul away this Reproach which that you may is the praiers of your Brother who could be contented to write himself your Companion in Tribulation Ier. Ives Ian. 14. 1660. Brother Ward my Fellow-prisoner desires to present his love to you and so do some others Which Letter above printed is here represented as a Looking-Glass for J. Ives to see himself in not so much to shame him as if yet it may be by the sight thereof which being his own may yossibly have more force upon him then another mans to recover him again to that true Honor of taking the shame of his fall to himself and also of suffering shame with the Saints for the Name of Christ which he once stood in and since very easily fell from and that he may remember from whence he is fallen and repent and do his first works for his last have not been found perfect before God and do somewhat that may roul away that reproach he hath rais'd against that Righteous Cause now suffer'd for by the Saints lest the Light be at last totally taken from him For as Humanum est errare so Humanius nihil est quam errantem revocare Or at least if J. I. be too far gone and past recovery then to recover the Honor of that Truth which to the utmost that in him is he hath dishonored by his shameful shuffles that is to say 1. By his shuffling departure from it in his sinful passion of slavish fear of man so soon after his holy passion as he calls it of Anger against his Brethrens lesse shameful because less sinful departure for J. I.'s suffering for it first as its likely they two did not declares his Conscience was convinced that he should not swear 2dly By his shuffling so much to defend and vindicate that same Evil of Swearing when it became his own which he had but a little before so egregiously condemned wh●…le it was found not in himselfe but in his Brethren and this in order meerly to the palliating of his meer painted Piety in that his paultry departure For he that builds again those legal things which once himself destroied therein makes himself no smal transgressor Gal 2. 18. 3dly By his shuffling so much though with as little success among such whose eyes are in their head being once departed from the Truth himself to draw all others after him into the Ditch Had he onely when he saw no other way to escape suffering contented himself rather to swear to his own inward loss then to suffer loss outwardly for refusing it his recovery might likely have been more hopeful and his Relapse less hurtful in all likelyhood then now it is But seeing he sets himself so zealously to solicite others to sin by swearing together with him the danger of its infecting others who are set to see with his eyes as well as the desperateness of his Disease in respect of himself calls for a more desperate Cure and searching Corrosive then need else be used And if by all that is in no less then true love to his soul though never so sharply tryed towards him his wound appears to be uncurable then Ense recidendum est ne pars s●…cera trahatur THE END * A Copy of a Letter from one that professeth the Truth but fell from it and took the Oath MY dear Friends I desire to lay before you this my condition in this my fall that my fall may be no cause for you 〈◊〉 stumble but that you by it may be the more ●… ouraged to stand for I have yeilded to the ●…etrayer and so betrayed the innocent Seed in ●…ne ●…or I forsook the counsel of the Lord and ●…onsulted with flesh and blood and so I fell in●…o the snare of the world and yeelded to ●…he ●…ovenant and so I rested satisfied in what I ●…ad done for some certain hours but when ●…he Lord in his Power looked back upon me ●…hen I remembred what I had done then I remembred that I had denyed Truth which once I had professed though once I thought I should have stood when others fell So the terrors of ●…he Lord have taken hold on me and I lye under the judgements of the Lord And now I feel the truth of ●…he words that were spoke by Ch●…ist Tha●… h●… that faileth in one tittle is guilty of all and now I feel th●… truth of that That it is better to forsake wife and children and all a man bath even life it self for Christ and the Truths sake then to break one tittle of the Law of God written in the heart So I hope tha●… by mercy and judgement the Lord will redeem me to himself again The Lord may suffer some to fall that the standing of them that stand faithful may seem to be the more glorious a●…d for them to take heed least they fall Now I know and feel tha●… it is better to part with anything of this world though it be as dear to one as ●…he right hand or the 〈◊〉 ●…hen to break our peace with God Pray for me for my Bonds are greater than yours Windsor the 22. of the 11th Month. 1660. Edw. Chilton * So called of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for a season onely So H.D. himself seems also to call it p. 3. quoting Gen. 14. 22. I have lifted up my hand c. i. e. I have sworn to the most high God because the Ceremony of lifting up the hand was used in Swearing * It seems the Baptists in these dayes many of whom do swear for fear against th●…●…nsciences to their terror afterward as I could instance in some at Nor thampton and elsewhere and many of whom plead in print for swearing are now degenerated from that integrity which the Baptists of old coli'd then as now by the name of Anabaptists did keep to at the first in that point of swearing And as for such for there are a few and but a few of those that are counted to the Quakers whose fall I mention that I may not seem partial as one justifying them more then the Baptists in their denyal of the truth who have taken the Oath they fall into the same condemnation with them witness not only the ●…etter above printed but also this Relation that came concerning two or three more lately from Ilchester and is here underprinted in way of warning to such ●…s stand that they may take heed l●…t they fall Ilchester 5th d. of the 1. m. ONe R. Moon at Perin in Cornwall formerly own'd a friend took the Oath through slavish fear but afterward had no peace till he went to a Iustice and denyed what he had done and now he hath some peace in Lanceston Prison in denying what he hath done in disobedience to Christs Command and the last week two on the same account were sent to this Prison So that all people may see the eminent hand of the Lord in it for we know none else in all these parts that denie the truth and the Lord hath found them out and executed judgement speedily upon them T. S. † Laert. in vita Pythagorae * Philo Iudaeus