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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1 They who swear falsely, whom we call perjured persons, are such as confirm any thing by Oath against their knowledge, or swear to do a thing which they intend not; or intending at first to do it, yet afterwards are careless and negligent in the performance of it.
1 They who swear falsly, whom we call perjured persons, are such as confirm any thing by Oath against their knowledge, or swear to doe a thing which they intend not; or intending at first to doe it, yet afterwards are careless and negligent in the performance of it.
These false Swearers do not only sin themselves, but as much as in them is, bring God in compass of their sin, and make him partaker thereof; he is made a witness, and an approver of a Lye, and therein made like unto the Devil, who is the Father of Lies, which is a most abominable dishonour done to the holy name of God.
These false Swearers doe not only sin themselves, but as much as in them is, bring God in compass of their sin, and make him partaker thereof; he is made a witness, and an approver of a Lye, and therein made like unto the Devil, who is the Father of Lies, which is a most abominable dishonour done to the holy name of God.
2 To swear impiously, is an unlawful Oath, either in regard of the matter, or of the form.