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The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion
The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native country, and the souls of men.The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native countrey, and the souls of men.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1691
THE REASONABLENESS OF Personal Reformation, › Chapter 3 › Section 3
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SECT. III.
The contumely and malignity found in profane Oaths, appears in that terrible threatening, The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain; a threatening altogether as Just and Righteous, as it is Severe and Terrible. This Sin admits of degrees of Guilt. 'Tis highly sinful to Swear by the Name of God lightly and vainly in our common Discourses, tho the Oath be clipped, and half suppressed, or disguised in the Pronunciation of it, which argues some remains of fear and shame in the Sinner.
The contumely and malignity found in profane Oaths, appears in that terrible threatning, The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain; a threatning altogether as Just and Righteous, as it is Severe and Terrible. This Sin admits of degrees of Guilt. 'Tis highly sinful to Swear by the Name of God lightly and vainly in our common Discourses, tho the Oath be clip'd, and half suppress'd, or disguised in the Pronunciation of it, which argues some remains of fear and shame in the Sinner.
'Tis yet worse (and indeed not a jot below Blasphemy) to swear by any other Name, than the Name of God. For in so doing, they attribute ⟨p. 35⟩to a Creature the Sovereign and Incommunicable property of God, set that Creature in the very Throne of God, and Invest it with the Regalities of his Omniscience, to know our Hearts, and Almighty Power to avenge the wrong upon us done to himself, as well as to Men by false swearing.