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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... the Ifraelits to do, he giueth this vnto them as a principal charge, that they make no men-tion of the names of other Gods; that they open not their lips to fpeake of them; or to fweare by them, or otherwife. And herevpon pfai. 16,4. Dauid faith, That the forowes of them which offer to another God fhal be multiplied, their offerings of bloud, faith he, wil I not offer, neither make mention of their names with my lips. Pbicrs open How then can thefe men excufe them-felues, that they haue not idolaters. offered this facrifice of bloud! when they not onelie name thofe pro-phane gods in their mouthes, and take them as witnefTes of their falfhood, fhal wee not faie they haue confented to idolatrie? I refer their caufe to be confidered of the learned, my felf maie not pafle beyond my latchet: but this much I dare affirme, that thefe men which dallie with God with their blafphemous fwearings, are not out of the danger of his indignation, and without repentance fhalbe no partakers of Chrift, nor of his merites. For al their othes what are they but open reproches againft the Name of God? When thefe men fweare, as they fweare at aduen-ture, doth it not declare that they regard not the Name of God, which ought to be holden holie in our fight? Who fo fweareth Leuit. i9, verfe vahilie by the Name of the Lord, defileth it. The Ifraelitim womans Leuit. 24, verfc fonne for blafpheming the Name of the Lord, was ftoned to death. who n La How is it, my deere brethren, that we can heare the name of the abb them ' T( v ered from the mouth of thefe blafphemers, without cafting downe our heads, and acknowledging his infinite maieftie! How is it, that we can heare, without flopping our eares, fo many counterfet othes vttered of plaiers! which, as light...

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