The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman

If you injure your Neighbours name, the Judge shall judge you: but if you sin thus against the Name of God, who shall entreat for you? words you'll say are but wind; but they are such a wind as will, without repentance, blow you into hell. Peters words cost him bitter tears: and Christ himself hath said, this word thou Fool in anger, is worthy of hell fire: you say it's but custom, and you do it not in any ill intent: but this aggravates the fault, that you can neither pretend profit nor pleasure for your sin, but only use, and yet will use it: You will continue to displease God, because you are used to it: As if a common Robber should plead before a Judge, not Guilty, because he had no ill intent, only it was his custom, which indeed deserves the severer Condemnation; custom can never extenuate a fault, but aggravate it.

If you injure your Neighbours name, the Judge shall judge you: but if you sin thus against the Name of God, who shall intreat for you? words you'l say are but wind; but they are such a wind as will, without repentance, blow you into hell. Peters words cost him bitter tears: and Christ himself hath said, this word thou Fool in anger, is worthy of hell fire: you say it's but custom, and you do it not in any ill intent: but this aggravates the fault, that you can neither pretend profitnor pleasure for your sin, but only use, and yet will use it: You will continue to displease God, because you are used to it: As if a common Robber should plead before a Judge, not Guilty, because he had no ill intent, onely it was his custome, which indeed deserves the severer Condemnation; custome can never extenuate a fault, but aggravate it.

Perhaps you'll say, without oaths you cannot be believed: but experience tells the contrary, that many a man that cannot swear, can obtain more belief, than he that swears every word; and reason tells us, that he who dare be profane against God, can easily venture to be deceitful towards man. And where an Oath is said to be for an end to all strife, it's not meant of that Oath, which is the Corruption of Man, but that Oath which is the Ordinance of God. Any man will judge us of small credit, if not quite bank-rupt, that will pawn our Faith and Truth, our best Jewels, •or every small trifle. And it's better to want