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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

whereof the streets are now full but he forbids also that ceremonious customary superfluous superstitious vain needless extravagant Anti-Evangelical Antichristian ordinary frequent forcibly imposed common swearing of which all Courts are full A sad presage of some Iudgement at hand that Prisons Streets Princes and great mens Courts and Places Universities Colledges and almost all houses at least all Alehouses are full of Oaths and mens discourses interlin'd and interwoven with worse then So help me GOD even with GOD CONFOUND GOD DAMN ME and such like and their Conversations converted from the Truth so totally into perjury and for swearing It was hoped by some that as H. D. speaks his Majesties Proclamation would have restrained and 't were to be wished say I that the Kings said Proclamation might yet be used to restrain such debauchery and deceit but alas it is nothing so for as H. D. sayes such men reverence his Majesty no more then the Wolf in the fable did St. Anthony So many Magistrates not to say many to one that is otherwise reverence the King say I so little as to take as little care to execute his good Laws and Statutes against such exorbitant Oaths as the most exorbitant swearers do in their common commerce to 〈◊〉 them yea as little as the Iustices themselves take much care even much more then they will have thank for at last from either God or the King or good men too hastily and strictly to execute those Laws and Statutes that are of old extant for those forced Oaths or those ordinary frequent and common swearings which are imposed by them in their Courts and Sessions And indeed how can it be expected that such as ●…ear not Gods Majesty as few of the subordinate Powers Priests and Priest-beguil'd People do should regard as H. D. speaks the Kings Majesty who is but as the drop of rain in comparison of him or regard the Kings Laws and Proclamations against swearing whose Prohibitions of it are but subordinate to Gods own which they regard not Besides they are so totally taken up now-adayes with over-executing those entangling Laws and as they dream and deem them most profitable Proclamations that under pain of forfeiture of Estates are extant for Oaths and for swearing that there 's no leisure left to look after those most truly profitable and wholesome Laws and Proclamations of both God and the King which cry out against both Oaths and Forswearing though in this case if they acted all as legally honestly and earnestly in order to the encreasing of the Poors poor-●…x in every Parish as many do illegally dishonestly and 〈◊〉 to●…ards the decrease of that little which the righteous 〈◊〉 with which more good is every way done then with th●… 〈◊〉 ●…venues of many wicked who while poor men pe●…h expend many thousands on vainshews and kick-shaws there might accrue ten times more money to the maintenance of the poor were that lowest penalty of 12. d. an Oath according to the Law exacted from every prophane Swearer then will ever accrue to the enriching of the Kings Coffers by punishing the poor Quakers for keeping Christs Command so as not to swear at all with the loss and forfeiture to the King to whom the least part of it commonly comes also of no less then All they have But what times do we behold Nothing but extreams of evil are presented to our eyes and ears Some do little but swear ordinarily frequently commonly in all kind of communication and conversation not onely in their usual entercourses in Courts with Iudges and Magistrates but in their hourly Discourses also with other men contrary to the Laws of both Christ and the King and such are most mad in prosecuting the Laws of the King for swearing on others who will not swear at all contrarily to the Laws of Christ the King of Kings Some fill their mouths with direful execrations upon every trifle though therewants no good Laws against either Drunkenness Cursing Swearing or other prophaness as the late Irish Proclamation given out at the Court at Dublin very well and wisely observes but onely this one That all those good ones that are made to curb these exorbitances might as carefully and speedily as the more unwholsome ones are be put in execution Others flye with fierceness upon such as for Conscience of an Oath onely will not yeeld to sweare when w●…ighty Causes are before them wherein they could declare enough and with cruel threatnings vehemently urge them Who shall heal these distempers Surely none can do it without the mighty Power of God break sorth in all your Consciences O thou much pityed King and thy Council thy Iudges Iustices chief Captains Sheriffs and all other Ministerial Officers under Thee to convince You and all People not onely of the unlawfulness of all but of the utter unnecessariness of any swearing sith as it 's evident that a true Christians word was wont to be taken for a true Testimony without an Oath in that Testament which we are under 2 Cor. 13. 1. So it 's no less evident that his witness of his own peaceableness towards the King and all men who walks in truth and to preserve his peace with Christ makes Conscience of an Oath is more worthy acceptation seeing such a one wil not lye and can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 3. 9. then that of those unpeaceaceable and deceitful spirits who walk not in truth who making no Conscience of either Swearing or Forswearing will to preserve themselves meerly from a present suffering swear future faithfulness to that to which upon occasion they would prove unfaithful Of the first of these most Magistrates in their Consciences do without their Oath believe verily they are Gods people and Children that will not lye and that God also is their Saviour As for the second few that are concerned to take security from them for all their Swearing either will do or can trust them one jot further then they see them The † Ppthagoreans forbad Oaths so did the Essaeans * because they thought him A noted Lyar who could not be believed without an Oath The Lord open the eyes of all men to whose Grace I commend this Work and resolve to remain as wel Your Friend H. Den and I. Ives against whom I write as Your Friend O People of all sorts to whom I write S. Fisher POSTSTSCRIPT HEre followeth so much of a Letter of Jeremiah ives as is sufficient to shew him his deep Degeneration in Spiritual Matters Dated about five dayes before he himself took the Oath while he in that Case stood in his Integrity and was imprison'd himself for not taking it and directed to two of his Brethren In which he declares what great Scandal they brought upon the Truth and Offence to him and his then fellow-Sufferers for it by their Swerving for fear of men from the fear of the Great God so as to obey their Precepts for

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 Ieremiah 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 restraint chuse to purchase their Earthly Liberties by Swearing to the violation of the Command of Christ who saith Mat. 5. 33. Swear not at all Iam. 5. 12. Above all things my brethren swear not By Samuel Fisher now Prisoner in Newgate for his Testimony to the Truth of Iesus this 20th day of the 12th Month 1660. For the Land is full of Adulterers For because of Oaths the Land mourneth c. Jer. 23. 10 11 12 c. By Swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood Therefore shall the Land Mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall Languish Hosea 4. 2 3. Lond●● Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins near Aldersgate One Antidote more against that provoking Sin of Swearing by reason of which this Land now mourneth c. THe Ministers of Justice so called taking occasion whether justly or no God will judge by the KING's late Proclamation occasioned through that late desperate attempt in this City of London to flye with great force and violence upon thousands of People living peaceably and quietly professing Godliness and more fiercely then on any others upon those called Quakers whose Practice Principle Profession Purpose and Promise it hath been and is to forgo all fighting with Carnal Weapons so as never to lift up an outward Sword against the King or any other man so much as in the Defence of themselves much less the Offence of others nor to learn War in that kind any more have driven the●… by droves into prison insomuch as England never saw the like the prisons are so full that there is hardly any room for more And though the Innocency of the foresaid People appeareth many ways as well by the Confession of the dying offenders as their own Protestations and the Confession of the men that would be glad to find occasion against them but are not able neither will they in any thing save pertaining to the Worship of God yet are they kept in Bonds as with a Snare which at this day holds them in and shuts the prison doors upon them in that though they are taught by Christ and his Apostles Matth. 5. 33. Iam. 5. 12. not to swear at all or in any wise no not by any Oath whatsoever yet that Oath of Allegiance required at first for no other end but the finding out of Popish Recusants and the tryal of mens faithfulness to the King after the discovery of that Papistical piece of Treachery in the horrid Powder-Plot in K. Iames his dayes is now besides the first true intent and purpose of it by some who more deeply despited dis-served the late King his Father then they can ever serve the King now reigning by their furious drivings more in malicious hatred against the Quakers his truest friends then in any right love or friendship to him most illegally and unduly imposed on the Quakers who by Hen. Den himself in his Quaker no Papist are prov'd to all men to be no Papists and of whose active obedience to him in all things lawful as well as of their passive obedience or patient suffering under the Imposition of things unlawful without violent resistance both the King and his Council as well as most sober-minded men throughout this Nation not only may be but I verily believe even are also by this time informed sufficiently to satisfaction I say the said Oath is unduly imposed or rather unjustly used as a Spiders Web as some Net or evil Engine wherewith many envious minded men design the entrapping entangling and ensnaring such harmless honest innocent and tender-hearted people against whom they bear any private grudge particular spleen or personal enmity so that when they would in way of revenge express themselves to the terrifying of such fools as they think will be frighted by it Some that judge themselves to be Iustices more by their Commission from the King to do Iustice then by their doing it threaten them with the imposition of the Oath Which silly doings of some men that know not how rightly to rule themselves in their place of Power when they are got into it made as I have heard one who was not ●…o tender of taking the Oath as his Adversary thought he was when he received this threatning Message from the Iustice viz. Tell him I will tender the Oath to him Very readily return this Answer to his foe who hoped to fright him by it viz. Tell him that I will take it if he do Thus crookedly and cruelly are things carried among the unjust Iustices and that Seed of evil-doers which is never to be renowned in the dark places of the Earth which are full of the ●…abitations of cruelty against the Righteous Seed and the Children of the Light who are more Conscientious then to be as the other are Conscious to themselves of evil-doing yea and so partial in the Law and in the administration of that they call Iustice are some of the Ministers of it that such as they have a spight at though living ●…ar from them and known in their Enemies own consciences to be both peaceable and unsusp●…tious persons shall be pulled out of their friends houses and pick't up in the very streets to have the Oath on pain of imprisonment and loss of all imposed on them when others whom they are willing to wink and very careful to connive at yea profess'd Popish Re●…usants in security of the King against whom onely the Law for the Oath was at first intentionally and directly made may sit securely under the very Noses of some of these new-found lawless Iustices of neither Peace nor Truth Insomuch that though the Quakers generally and some few Baptists while at liberty rather chuse Imprisonment then to take that Oath or any other and those thousands of Quakers and some of those Baptists who are in prison and have Liberty proffered upon condition of taking the Oath do rather continue there then purchase their Liberty with Swearing Yet very many Baptists both in prison