A37046:556
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So then against this Doctrine of Oaths faileth perjury or forswearing, rash-swearing, indeliberate▪ swearing, as incomplements (as for instance, if one should swear he will not drink, or go before such another person:) Solemn Oaths entered into, at Communions, at Baptism, or in other lawful Covenants not performed: Ah! how often are these broken, even in that which we might easily do? We so carry and keep to God as men could not but quarrel; irreverent swearing even in what is right; grossly profane swearing, as by Gods Soul, his Wounds, Blood, &c. Uncouth'd, strange, newly-coined and invented Oaths, no doubt, by special help of the Devils art, Cursings, wherein the Devil is mentioned, and his aid implored for the execution of mens paision••e and revengeful imprecations; yea, not being suitably affected with the Oaths of others, not admonishing them, nor seeking to recover them, not endeavouring by all requisite care the preventing of them, with-holding of instruction and correction when called for, and not procuring the erection of Schools, &c. may make many guilty of Oaths they never heard, when they fall out in persons, whom it became them to teach and admonish, &c.
So then against this Doctrine of Oaths faileth perjury or forswearing, rash-swearing, indeliberat▪ swearing, as incomplements (as for instance, if one should swear he will not drink, or go before such another person:) Solemne Oaths entered into, at Communions, at Baptism, or in other lawful Covenants not performed: Ah! how often are these broken, even in that which we might easily do? We so carry and keep to God as men could not but quarrel; irreverent swearing even in what is right; grosly prophane swearing, as by Gods Soul, his Wounds, Blood, &c. Uncouth'd, strange, newly-coin'd and invented Oaths, no doubt, by special help of the Devils art, Cursings, wherein the Devil is mentioned, and his aid implored for the execution of mens paision••e and revengeful imprecations; yea, not being suitably affected with the Oaths of others, not admonishing them, nor seeking to recover them, not endeavouring by all requisite care the preventing of them, with-holding of instruction and correction when called for, and not procuring the erection of Schools, &c. may make many guilty of Oaths they never heard, when they fall out in persons, whom it became them to teach and admonish, &c.