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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97250	A hopefull way to cure, that horrid sinne of swearing: or an helpe to save swearers, if willing to be saved being an offer or message from him whom they so daringly and audaciously provoke. Also a curb against cursing.	Younge, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing Y160B; ESTC R229893	8,559	5

into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels Matth. 25.41 No longer excuse nor defend it but repent of it and forsake it and so much the rather for that of all other sinnes this sinne of swearing is the most inexcusable First because it is a sinne from which of all other sinnes we have most power of abstinence as I shewed you before and the easier the thing commanded is the greater guilt in the breach of it and the lighter the injunction the heavier the transgression as St. Austin speaks and Adam his eating the forbidden fruit sufficiently proves Secondly because it is a sin to which of all other sins we have the fewest temptations for all thou canst expect by it is the suspition of a common lyer by being a common swearer Or that thou shalt vexe others and they shall hate thee for it bringeth not so much as any appearance of good unto us to induce us for whereas other sins have their severall baits to allure us some the bait of profit some of honour some of pleasure this sin is destitute of them all and onely bringeth much losse here namely of credit and a good conscience and the losse of Gods favour and the Kingdome of Heaven hereafrer which is of more value then ten thousand worlds which shews that thou lovest this sin onely because it is a sin and swearest out of meere malice and contempt of God which is most fearfull and as a man would thinke should make it unpardonable I am sure the Psalmist hath a tertible word for all such if they would take notice of it Let them be confounded that transgresse without a cause Psal 25.3 And no marvell that this fearfull imprecation should fall from the Prophets mouth for that man is bottomlesly ill who loves vice meerly because it is a vice and because God most strictly forbids it He is a desperate prodigious damnable wretch who rather then not die will anger God on set purpose But as if swearing alone would not presse thee deep enough into hell thou addest Cursing to it a sin of a● higher nature which none use frequently but such as are desperately wicked it being their peculia● brand in Scripture as how doth the Holy Ghost stigmatize such an one His mouth is full of cursing Psal 10. and Rom. 3.14 ot He loveth cursing Psal 109.17 and indeed whom can you observe to love this sin or to have their mouthes full of cursing but ruffaines and sons of Belial such as have shaken out of their heart the feare of God the shame of men the love of Heaven the dread of Hell not once caring what is though of spoken of them here or what becomes of them hereafter yea observe them well and you will find that they are mockers of all that march not under the pay of the Devill And whence do these monsters of the earth these hellish miscreants these bodily and visible devi●… learne this their damnable cursing and swearing are not their tongues fired and edged from hell as Sain●… James hath it Jam. 3.6 yea it is the very language of the damned as you may see Revel 16.11 21. On●… they learne it here before they come thither and are such proficients therein that the Devill counts the●… his best schollers and sets them in his highest forme Psal 1.1 and well they deserve it with whum th●… language of hell is so familiar that blasphemy is become their mother tongue Besides it is rhe very dep●… of sin roaring and drinking is the horse way to hell whooring and cheating the foot way but swearing and cursing follows Corah Dathan and Abiram And certainly if the infernall Tophet be not for these me it can challenge no guests But see how witlesse gracelesse and shamelesse even the best are that use t● curse 〈…〉 saying God damne me confound me the devill take me and the like which would make a rationall man tremble to name because I were as good knock at a dead mans grave as speak to them Thou art crossed by some one perhaps thy wise childe or servant or else thy horse the weather the ●…ce bow●es or some other of the creatures displease thee and thou fallest a cursing and blaspheming them wishing the plague of God or Gods vengeance to light on them or some such hellish speech falls from thy foule mouth And so upon every foolish trifl●e or every time thou art angry God must be at thy beck and come downe from Heaven in a I haste and become thine officer to revenge thy quarrell and serve thy malicious humour O monstrous impiety O shamelesse impudency to be abhorred of all that heare ●t not once taking notice what he commands in his Word as Blesse them that persecute you blesse I say and curse not Rom. 12 14. And againe Blesse them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luke 6.28 which is the practice of all true Christians 1 Cor. 4.12 But this is not one halfe of thine offence for whom doest thou curse Alas the creatures that displease thee are but instruments thy sin is the cause and God is the Author 2 Sam. 16.11 Psal 39.9 10. Gen. 45.8 Job 1.21 from whom thou hast deserved it and ten thousand times a greater crosse But in stead of look●ing up from the stone to the hand which threw it or from the effect to the cause as Gods people doe thou like a mastiffe dog settest upon the stone or weapon that hurts thee But in this case who are you angry withall Does your Horse the Dice the Raine or any other creature displease you alas they are out servants and if their master bid Smite they must not forbeare they may say truly what Rabshakeh usurped Jsa 36 10. Are we come without the Lord and all that heare thee may say as the Prophet did to Sena●ha●…b 2 King 19 22. Whom hast thou blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy selfe even ●gainst ●he holy One of Israel And what will be the issue the causelesse curse shall not come where the curser meant it Prov. 26.2 ●ea though thou cursest yet God will blesse Psal 109.28 but thy curses shall be sure to rebound backe into thine owne brest Psal 7.14 15 16. Prov. 14.30 Cursing mouthes are like ill made Peeces which while men discharge at others recoile in splinters on their owne faces Their words and wishes be but whirlwinds which being breathen forth returne againe to the same place As heare how the Holy Ghost delivers it Psal 109. As he loved cursing so shall it come unto him and as he loved not blessing so shall it be far ●…om him As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a garment so shall it come into his bowels like water and like ●…e into his bones let it be unto him as a garment to cover him and for a girdle wherewith he shall alwayes be ●…rded ver 17 18 19. Heare this all ye whose tongue run so fast on the Devils errand you loved curing you shall have it both upon you about you and in you and that everlastingly if you persevere and ●…e on for Christ himselfe at the last day even he which came to save the world shall say unto all such epart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels Mat. 25.41 Where they ●…all doe nothing but curse for evermore for they no farther apprehending the goodnesse mercy and ●…ounty of God then by the sense of their owne torments the effects of his justice shall hate him and ●…ing him they shall curse him Revel 16.11 21. They suffer and they blaspheme there is in them a ●…rious malice against him being cursed of him they recurse him they curse him for making them curse ●…m for condemning them curse him because being adjudged to death they can never finde death they ●…se his punishments because they are so unsufferable curse his mercies because they may never taste ●…em curse the Blood of Christ shed on the Crosse because it hath satisfied for millions and done their beleeving soules no good curse the Angels and Saints in Heaven because they see them in joy and ●…emselves in torment Cursing shall be their sins and their chiefe ease Blasphemies their Prayers La●…mae their notes Lamentation all their harmony these shall be their evening songs their morning ●…gs their mourning song for ever and ever And indeed who shall goe to Hell if cursers should be ●…t out Wherefore let all those learne to blesse that looke to be heirs of the blessing Other objections follow in this conference and are accordingly answered with the meanes of cure ●…scribed c. in the ten insuing pages which are also printed for such as think these foure over short ●t being loth either to surfet or cloy the swearer who is communly short breath'd in well doing and least ●…ing more should hinder him from reading this for Satan and hir corrupt heart will not condiscend shall hold cut to heare his beloved sin so spoken against it brakes off thus abruptly Postscript YOu that feare God or have any bowels of compassion towards the precious soules of those poore ignorant men women and children whom you heare to sweare and curse as dogs bark that is not more ●…urstnes then out of custom wish them to reade these four pages which I thought fit to print even as ●…und it in the beginning of a Manuscript And in case you perceive good come of it give of them to ●…ur friends and neighbours At James Crumps a Bookbinder in little Bartholomewes Well-yard you may ●…e as many gratis as you shall be pleased to destribute If you would paste it on a wall or Table take 〈◊〉 of each lea●e placing the pages thus 1. 2. 3. 4. paring away the margents Imprimatur John Downam

Earth nor by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation 〈◊〉 5.12 where marke the Emphasis in the first words Above all things sweare not and the great danger 〈◊〉 it in the last word condemnation If the matter be light and vaine we must nor sweare at all if so weighty that we may lawfully swear●… before a Magistrate being called to it then we must onely use the glorious Name of our God in a holy ●…d religious manner as you may see Deut. 6.13 Isa 45.23 65.16 Josh 23.7 Jer. 5.7 Exod. 23.13 ●…d the reasons of it are weighty if we looke into them for in swearing by any creature whatsoever we ●…e invocate that creature and ascribe to it divine worship a lawfull oath being a kinde of invocation 〈◊〉 a part of Gods worship Yea whatsoever we sweare by that we invocate both as our witnesse sure●… and judge Heb. 6.16 and by consequence deifie it by ascribing and communicating unto it Gods in●…mmunicable attributes as his Omnipresence and Omniciencie of being every where present and know●…g the secret thoughts and intentions of the heart and likewise an omnipotency as being Almighty i●…●…ronising protecting defending and rewarding us for speaking the truth or punishing us if we speak ●…ly All which are so peculiar to God as that they can no way be communicated or ascribed to another 〈◊〉 that in swearing by any of those things thou committest an high degree of grosse Idolatry thou spoile●…●…d robest God of his glory the most impious kinde of theft and in a manner dethronest him and place●… 〈◊〉 Idoll in his roome And as to sweare by the creature makes the sinne far more hainous so the more meane and vile the ●…ng is which you sweare by be it by my fey by cock and pie hares foot by this cheese and such like ●…ildish oaths which are so much in use with the ignorant and superstitions swarme the greater is your ●…ne in swearing such an oath because you ascribe that unto these basest of creatures which is only pr●…●…r to God namely to know your heart and to be a discerner of secret things why else should you call that ●…eature as a witnesse unto your conscience that you speake the truth and lie not which onely belongeth 〈◊〉 God And therefore the Lord calls it a forsaking of him as marke well what he saith Jer. 5.7 How ●…ll I spare thee for this thy children have forsaken me and sworne by them that are no gods Exod. 23.13 And ●…e you make it a small matter to forsake God and make a God of the creature Will you beleeve the ●…ophet Amos if you will he saith speaking of them that swore by the sinne of Samaria that they sha●…●…ll and never rise againe Amos 8.14 a terrible place to vaine swearers Neither are we to joyne any other with God in our oaths for in so doing we make base Idols and filth●●…eatures corrivals in honour and competitors in the throne of justice with the Lord who is Creator of ●eaven and Earth and the supreme Judge and sole Monarch of all the world Or in case we doe our doome shall be remedilesse for the Lord threatneth by the Prophet Zephan at he will cut off them that sweare by the Lord and by Maulcham which Maulcham was their King or as some ●…ink their Idoll Zeph. 1.4 5. But admit the sinne were small as you would have it to be yet the circumstances make it most hainous 〈◊〉 even the least sinne in its owne nature is not onely mortall but rests unpardonable so long as it is wil●…gly-committed and excused or defended Swearer But all doe sweare except some few singular ones and they also will lie which is as bad Messenger You must not measure all others by your owne bushell for although ill dispositions cause i●…●…spitions even as the eye that is bloodshed sees all things red or as they that have the Jaundees see a●…●…ings yellow yet know that there be thousands who can say truly through Gods mercy that they ha●…●…ther chuse to have their souls passe from their bodies then a wilfull premeditated lie or a wicked oath ●…om their mouths wherefore when you want experience thinke the best as charity bids you and leave ●…hat you know not to the searcher of hearts As for the number of swearers it cannot be denied but the sinne is almost universall and this is 〈◊〉 which hath incensed Gods wrath and almost brought an universall destruction upon our whole Na●…on But is not this excuse That others doe so a most reasonlesse plea and onely becomming a foole then our Saviour Christ hath plainly told us that the greatest number goe the broad way to destruction and bi●… a few 〈…〉 wickednesse 1 John 5.19 And that the number of those whom Satan shall deceive is as the sand of the sea Revel 20.8 and 13.16 Isay 10.22 Rom. 9.27 And tell me were it a good plea to commit a felony and say that others doe so Or wilt thou leap into hell and cast away thy soule because others doe so A sorry comfort it will be to have a numerous multitude accompany us into that lake of fire that never shall be quenched Besides it is Gods expresse charge Exod. 23.2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe evill and St. Pauls everlasting rule Rom. 12.2 Fashion not your selves like unto this world Swearer But I may lawfully sweare so I affirme nothing but the truth Messenger If you be lawfully called to it as before a Magistrate or when some urgent matter constraineth for the confirming of a necessary truth which can by no other lawfull meanes be cleared and for the ending of all contentions and controversies and clearing our owne or our neighbours good name person or estate and to put an end unto all strife aiming at Gods glory and our own or our neighbours good which is the only use and end of an oath in which case a man is rather a patient then a voluntary agent You may sweare otherwise not Neither must we sweare at all in our ordinary communication if we will obey Gods Word as you may see Matth. 5.34 35 36 37. James 5.12 Swearer Except I sweare men will not beleeve me Messenger Thou hadst as good say I have so often made shipwrack of my credit by accustomary ly●ng that I can gaine no beleefe unto my word without an oath for it argues a guilty conscience of the want of credit and that our word alone is worth no respect when it will not be taken without a pawne or surety Neither will any but base banquerours pawne so precious a jewell as their faith or offer better security for every small trifle Besides he that often sweareth not seldome forsweareth And so I have informed you from Gods Word what the danger is of vaine and wicked swearing Now if you either beleeve the Scriptures or desire to escape that direfull sentence Depart from me ye cursed