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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46786	A letter to a gentleman of note, guilty of common swearing recommended now to all such of that rank as are under the same guilt, and fit to be perused by all Their Majesties good subjects that would please both God and the king, in helping to suppress this crying sin / by B.J.	Jenks, Benjamin, 1646-1724.	1690 (1690)	Wing J618A; Wing J3_CANCELLED; ESTC R8925	10,696	20

Faith and Trust among Men destroyed by the idle trivial use of Swearing And for all such Damages accruing to the Publick from this horrid Abuse of Speech every Common Swearer is responsible and much more those of Eminent Station who by their Examples should teach others better How like a Ruler then that Rules for God as well as Reigns by him does the King's most Excellent Majesty now urge the hampering those unruly Beasts of the People with Penal Inflictions that will not be wrought upon to forgo such a Barbarous Practice by any more fair perswasive Methods And as they are the deadly Enemies of their Country who will not abridge themselves of this Ungodly Pleasure tho it were to save a Church to save a Kingdom and to please God and the King both together So I dare refer it to your self Sir when you do but entertain any serious Thoughts what true Friends they can be to the Publick who in such a Case as this will Heal and Connive at the Offenders and not dare what in them lies as far as they are bound to bring such notorious Criminals to Shame and Suffering But this alas we are not like to have the pleasure of seeing till the Lesser Wheels move yet more regularly under the Greater For the Vulgar will not think it good Manners to lead their Betters the way till yea yea and nay nay become the Mode of their Landlords and Masters as well as of their King and Queen and not only Sovereignty on the Throne but Magistracy also on the Bench fears an Oath But O! how happy then would it be with us if every one concern'd would act as Good Subjects under the Best of Rulers who are not for bearing the Sword in Vain but would be as a Joy to them that do well so a Terror to Evil-doers Now this Sir I cannot but think most pertinent for your Consideration who profess so much Love to your Country and Loyalty to King William and Queen Mary They are both indeed excellent Pretensions and 't is great pity you should be therein guilty of any Self-contradictions For how can you sincerely Love your Country when you Patronize the cursed thing that bodes nothing but its Ruin As His Sacred Majesty most truly and piously like himself has laid down the Position That our Religion Peace and Happiness are all endangered by reason of that overflowing of Vice which is too notorious in this Nation And what Loyalty to Their Majesties when still you are so much for the thing which they have declared themselves so much against 'T is methinks a strange sort of Loyalty only to Cross and Provoke them Though the Ranting Loyalty of Debauched Ruffians it 's true was a while ago in Fashion yet pray good Sir remember that now it 's another Reign and such Princes blessed be God we are under as do not make a Jest of all Serious Religion And the pretence of honouring them with God's Dishonour is growing so fulsome that nothing more uncovers the Nakedness of the Authors when the King 's published Letter again acquaints us That He most earnestly desires and will endeavour a General Reformation of the Lives and Manners of all His Subjects as being that which must establish His Throne What Supporters then are they of the Throne who think still to testify their Loyalty by the most prophane Extravagancy And what Honour and Deference do they pay to the Royal Pleasure who instead of striving to promote it only give broad Significations how much they Scorn and Contemn it I have heard you declare Sir That you are no Papist Phanatick nor Disaffected to the Present Government Yea I perceive too much you are very forward uncall'd to Swear when some will not Swear now though called to it But in good truth Sir I think it is to little purpose what you do call your self as long as you abide under this Heinous Guilt for at the bottom they can be of no Religion at all but are the foulest Scandal to the Christian Name and a heavy Plague to the World who Name God in their Oaths oftner than in their Prayers and have little to do with Him but only thus to provoke him See that you do not here symbolize too right with Rome before you are aware in postponing the weightiest Matters of the Law to the Mint Annise and Cummin while you inveigh most bitterly against all that to a hairs breadth conform not to Humane Institutions and in the mean time your self can swallow the Camels of such Monstrous Oaths as make the greatest Violation and the rudest Attack upon God's own express Commands One would think you owed the Church of England no real Kindness Sir when you so eagerly lay claim to its Membership only to Reproach it as if it gave you a Protection for that open Ungodliness which the the very Light of Nature utterly Shames and Condemns And you would prove your self a Son of the Church by acting like a Child of the Devil Sir you too much Credit those whom you so divert your self to Bespatter yea you change Names with them while you Rant at them For who in earnest is the bigger Fanatick and Madcap he that boggles at an indifferent Ceremony or he that makes no Conscience at all of the most notorious Damnable Iniquity Do you think to Convert Dissenters with your hairbrain'd Swearing and Damning Or to invite them into our Holy Communion with such leud Communication Indeed no wonder this should make the Offering of the Lord abhorred and bring a Scandal and Prejudice on the best Cause it self for the sake of such kind of Patrons and Abettors appearing in it only to turn the Adversaries Stomacks more and open their Mouths wider against it Be it known to you Sir The Church of England is no Mother of such Abominations 'T is the silliest mistake in any that think to find Swearing in her Litany And he as obstinately shuts his Eyes against the Light who sees not all irreverent Abuse of God's Name cried down in her Homily But when you can so defile your own Nest and Blemish the most Excellent Profession as well as desperately fling at the Glory of Him that made you Here if ever The Righteous Judge of all the Earth is concern'd to shew himself and take such Audacious Criminals in hand to make them feel it in Judgments worthy of God who will not leave off so to dare him to it but carry on the Affront still tho their Sin hath not so much as the face of any Worldly Interest or Fleshly Pleasure in it and there 's no Natural Inclination or Impetuous Appetite to it not so much as to make the Plea of Humane Infirmity for it But the mad Swearer swears ever for pure Swearing sake Sins Gratis in Contempt of Heaven and Sells his Soul for no Consideration at all but out of a Fantastick Humour to follow an inconsiderate Herd to his own Eternal Ruin Good Sir you have