item: #1 of 68 id: A01076 author: Forset, Edward, 1553?-1630. title: A defence of the right of kings Wherein the power of the papacie ouer princes, is refuted; and the Oath of Allegeance iustified. Written for the vse of all English romanists; more especially, for the information of those priests, or Iesuits, which are by proclamation commanded to conforme themselues, or depart the kingdome. By Edvvard Forset, Esquire. date: 1624.0 words: 28797 flesch: 28 summary: Such , actions or pretences haue no more ground in 〈◊〉 , then if any adulterer should maintaine his 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 pronenesse of appetite ; The Thiefe by the naturall instinct of prouiding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Murtherer , by the naturall 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of reuenge : But we stand assured , that whatsoeuer nature by her vncorrupted rules , doth induce or perswade vs vnto , touching our duties in Morall actions , the same , as it was written by the finger of God , in the heart of man , at the Creation , so was it also reduced , and comprised by the Wisedome of God , into the Tables of the Morall Law , in the which for as much , as we haue an expresse commandement , of honor and obedience to gouernors that must remaine fixed in our hearts , to hold vs firme in the Bond of allegiance : Then let P. R. and all his conjoyned Catholikes , ( as hee vaunteth ) make it plaine vnto vs , that eyther Nature hath implanted , or the Commandements of God haue enioyned , therepressing or deposing of such Princes , vppon any exceptions , surmizes , or accusations whatsoeuer : If his 〈◊〉 were Apostolicall , then all the Apostles had interest thereunto as well as he : If Episcopall , did he renounce or relinquish his Apostleship to erect a new state or seate of an 〈◊〉 Bishop , neuer mentioned in the Scripture , and of a larger extent and dominion then the Apostleship , and by what warrant and authoritye did he so ? 8 If he did found any such Episcopall eminencie vniversall over all the Churches of the world , and that invested in his owne person , why may it not be thought , that such his Episcopall function was setled vpon him rather at Antioch , where his chiefest abode was ( after his departure from Ierusalem ) then at Rome ? 9 Whether in case he preferred Rome before Antioch , Ierusalem and other places , ( whereof there is no apparant proofe or certainty , ) is that successive seare established at Rome , of the like and the same power , vertue , and veritie , as was conferred on his owne person ? 10 Whether such supposed succession were afixed to the place , or aplied to the persons ? 11 Whether if the succession were applied to the place , was it not cut off and discontinued when there was no vniuersall Bishop refiant at Rome ? which for some hundreths of yeares after Christ , and since the vsurpation Papall for a long time together hath come to passe ? keywords: absolute; actions; affaires; againe; allegiance; answer; antichristian; argument; articles; assured; authority; bee; beleeue; best; better; betweene; bishop; booke; breake; cardinall; carriage; cases; catholikes; cause; censure; charge; christ; christian; church; civill; command; commission; common; conclusion; confesse; conscience; consent; consequence; controuersie; councell; countries; course; crowne; decree; defence; deposing; desire; difference; direct; distinction; doctrine; doe; dominion; doth; doth hee; doubt; duty; earth; ecclesiasticall; eebo; end; england; english; erre; euen; euery; example; execution; exercise; exorbitant; expresse; faction; faith; farre; father; feare; force; function; generall; gent; giue; god; gods; good; gouernment; great; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; hee; hereticall; high; highest; himselfe; hold; holinesse; hope; iesuites; images; imperiall; indirect; interpretation; iudge; iudgement; iustice; kind; king; kingdome; knowne; lawfull; learned; leaue; left; let; liberty; life; limitation; little; long; lordship; loue; maiestie; maintaine; majesty; man; manner; matter; meanes; meaning; mee; men; mittigator; naturall; nature; nay; necessity; neuer; new; oath; obedience; occasion; offer; office; opinion; order; ordinary; ouer; outward; owne; papacy; papall; papists; particular; parts; pasce; pastor; pastorall; people; person; peter; place; plaine; pleased; point; pope; popes authority; popes power; popish; position; potentates; power; preseruation; pretence; pretended; priests; princes; priuate; proceedings; profession; proofe; proper; proposition; publike; purpose; question; realme; reason; religion; repressing; rest; right; rome; romish; royall; rule; sacred; said; saint; sayd; sayth; sea; sense; sentence; serue; set; shew; simple; sith; sort; soueraigne; spirits; spirituall; state; stile; strong; subiects; subject; succession; successors; sufficient; supreame; supremacy; sword; taking; tcp; tearmes; temporall; text; themselues; thereunto; things; thought; time; title; treatise; true; trust; truth; vnder; vniuersall; vnlawfull; vnto; vpon; vrgent; vse; vsurpation; way; wealth; wee; whatsoeuer; whereof; words; worke; world; yea; yeares; zeale cache: A01076.xml plain text: A01076.txt item: #2 of 68 id: A02518 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. title: Certaine irrefragable propositions worthy of serious consideration. By I.H. B. of Exon date: 1639.0 words: 1650 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A02518) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 3802) keywords: authority; books; certaine; characters; consideration; early; eebo; encoding; english; exon; himselfe; images; irrefragable; man; oath; online; oxford; partnership; phase; propositions; religion; right; soveraign; tcp; tei; text; works; xml cache: A02518.xml plain text: A02518.txt item: #3 of 68 id: A02913 author: Helwys, Thomas, 1550?-1616?, attributed name. aut title: Obiections: answered by way of dialogue wherein is proved by the Law of God: by the law of our land: and by his Maties many testimonies that no man ought to be persecuted for his religion, so he testifie his allegeance by the Oath, appointed by law. date: 1615.0 words: 25068 flesch: 74 summary: If I should come to Church , and not of consciēce , but for other respects , as many Papists and other Hipocrits do , to God it were most abhominable and what faithfulnes can be hoped for in such , towards his Majesties person and state , can any Godly wiseman thinke that he that playeth the dissembling hipocrite with God , that he will do lesse with men , and wil not worke any villany if it were i●●●● power , ād therefore herein , you compelling 〈◊〉 by tyrannie to bring my bodie , wherevnto my spirit cannot be brought , you cōpel me to hipocrisie with God and man , for if my hart were not faithfull in sincerity to his Majesties Crowne and dignitie , as I take God to witnes ( before whome I must be condemned or justified ) it is , these courses would rather harde my hart to worke villany then otherwise . I. I see evidently , that al are but cavels , and that no mortall Man can make any Man offer Sacrifices vnder the new Testament , vntill he bee a beleever , and converted , for he must bee in Christ , before he may offer sacrifices , for in Chri : onely the Father accepteth vs : but what say you , have they not power to compell Men to come to the place where the word is publiquely taught that they may be converted ? C. Wel : then you see that the example of the kings of Israel ( who had power to compel thē to sacrifice , or to cut them of ) applyed to earthly Princes , is gone as a meere doctrine of man , ād not of God. keywords: acknowledg; act; allegeance; answere; authority; ād; baptisme; beast; bee; beleeve; bene; blood; bodies; body; cause; christ; church; comaunded; come; compel; confesse; conscience; consider; contrary; cor; cruel; day; death; desire; disciples; doctrine; doth; earthly; els; end; england; english; err; estate; etc; evill; faith; faithful; false; feare; fire; flesh; frō; ghost; god; gods; good; gospell; great; hands; hart; hath; heaven; holy; iesus; iff; image; ioh; iohn; israel; king; kingdome; knowe; land; law; lawes; life; like; little; lord; luk; magistrats; man; manifest; mat; matters; meanes; men; nation; need; new; oath; obedience; obey; onely; ordinances; outward; owne; papists; peace; people; persecution; persons; pope; power; practice; preach; princes; prove; punishment; religion; repentance; requireth; respect; rest; revel; right; rome; said; salvation; saviour; scriptures; seeing; set; shal; shewe; sin; soule; spirituall; subjects; submit; tcp; teach; temple; testament; text; thē; thinges; thought; tie; time; true; truth; vnder; vnto; vpon; vse; water; way; wee; wel; whatsoever; whome; wicked; wil; word; worke; worldly; worship; wrath; yea; ● ● cache: A02913.xml plain text: A02913.txt item: #4 of 68 id: A04286 author: Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621. title: An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome. date: None words: 54950 flesch: 70 summary: But whose hatred did he feare in this ? was it not yours ? Who haue interest , but KINGS , in the withdrawing of true Subiection from Kings ? An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome. keywords: aboue; account; againe; aliue; allegiance; alreadie; ancient; anent; angels; ann; answerer; antichrist; apocalyps; apologie; apostles; apostolike; appeare; arch; article; ashamed; attempt; authoritie; authour; babylon; beast; bee; beginning; beleeue; bellarmine; bene; betweene; bin; birth; bishops; blessed; blood; body; booke; brethren; breue; calling; cap; cardinall; carefull; catholike; cause; certaine; chapter; charitie; christ; christendome; christian; chron; church; churches; citie; ciuill; cleare; command; commeth; comming; common; concil; confesse; confession; confutation; conscience; consent; consider; conspiracies; constancie; constantinople; contrary; controuersies; corrupted; councell; countrey; craft; crowne; cruell; daily; day; dayes; death; deposed; description; desire; destruction; deuils; difference; discourse; dist; diuers; diuine; diuinitie; diuinity; doctrine; doe; doeth; dominions; doubt; dragon; earth; earthly; ecclesiasticall; eebo; election; elias; emperour; empire; end; england; english; enoch; epist; epistle; errand; eternall; ethnicke; euen; euery; euill; example; excellent; excommunication; expresse; eyes; faith; fall; false; famous; farre; fathers; feare; fidelitie; fire; fiue; flesh; foorth; forme; foure; france; free; garnet; gaue; generall; giue; glory; god; gods; goe; good; gouernement; great; greatest; greatnesse; gregory; ground; halfe; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; heauen; hee; heere; hell; henry; hereticall; heretike; high; himselfe; histories; history; hold; holy; honour; hope; hornes; horse; hundreth; iames; ibid; ibidem; idolatrie; ierusalem; iesuites; images; innumerable; interest; iohn; iudge; iudgement; iulian; iust; keepe; kingdome; kings; knowen; knowledge; late; lawes; lawfull; leaue; left; leo; letter; lib; life; like; little; liues; long; lord; lye; lying; maiesties; maine; maintaine; making; man; maner; mans; marke; martyrdome; martyrs; matter; matth; meane; mee; members; men; mention; mightie; monarch; moses; mouth; mystery; nations; naturall; nature; nay; neuer; new; non; number; oath; obedience; occasion; office; old; olde; onely; opinion; order; ouer; owne; pag; papists; paradise; parliament; particular; paul; people; persecution; person; perswade; peter; place; plaine; point; pope; power; practise; prayers; predecessors; preface; premonition; present; pretended; priests; primacie; princes; principall; procure; professe; profession; promise; proofe; prophet; proue; publike; punishment; puritanes; purpose; queene; question; reason; receiue; reigne; religion; respect; rest; reuealed; reuel; reuerence; reward; right; romane; rome; romish; rule; safe; said; saints; sake; saluation; sam; sayd; saying; scotland; scripture; sea; seale; seat; second; secret; seeme; sense; sentence; serue; set; shee; shew; short; sinne; sitting; sixt; sonnes; sorts; soueraigne; soules; space; speake; speaketh; spirituall; state; strange; strong; subiection; subiects; substance; sundry; supremacie; sure; tcp; temple; temporall; testament; text; themselues; thereunto; thing; thinke; time; title; tortus; touching; traitours; true; trueth; verse; vertue; vnder; vnderstand; vnto; vpon; vse; vsed; wares; warrant; way; wee; wel; whatsoeuer; whereof; wil; wise; witnesses; woman; wonder; words; worke; world; worship; worthy; write; wrong; xiij; xvij; yea; yeeres cache: A04286.xml plain text: A04286.txt item: #5 of 68 id: A07856 author: Church of England. Diocese of Bath and Wells. Bishop (1608-1616 : Montagu) title: Iames by the prouidence of God, bishop of Bath and Wels, to all and singular arch-deacons, officials, parsons ... & al other eccelsiastical officers ... greeting whereas His Maiesty, for the seasoning of all youth in their due alleageance, hath caused a booke to bee compiled and imprinted, containing the sum of the Oath of Alleageance, intituled, God and the King ... date: 1616.0 words: 1761 flesch: 57 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28882) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: alleageance; arch; bath; bee; bishop; booke; church; diocesse; early; eebo; english; euery; eyther; god; hath; iames; latine; men; oath; officers; officials; parsons; said; tcp; text; youth cache: A07856.xml plain text: A07856.txt item: #6 of 68 id: A09102 author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. title: The iudgment of a Catholicke English-man, living in banishment for his religion VVritten to his priuate friend in England. Concerninge a late booke set forth, and entituled; Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus, or, An apologie for the oath of allegiance. Against two breves of Pope Paulus V. to the Catholickes of England; & a letter of Cardinall Bellarmine to M. George Blackwell, Arch-priest. VVherein, the said oath is shewed to be vnlawfull vnto a Catholicke conscience; for so much, as it conteyneth sundry clauses repugnant to his religion. date: 1608.0 words: 45323 flesch: 65 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. And it seemeth no lesse dissonant , to call a Cardinall , Maister , then if a man should call the chiefest dignityes of our Crowne by that name , as M. Chauncelour , M. Treasurer , M. Duke , M. Earle , M. Archbishop , M. Bancroft , which I assure my selfe , his Ma. tie would in law of honour condemne , if any externall Subiect or Prince , should vse to men of that State in our Countrey , though he were of different Religion . keywords: aboue; affayres; afflictions; againe; alexander; allegiance; ambrose; ancient; anno; answere; apologer; apologie; apology; apostolicke; appeare; arch; argument; articles; attempt; authority; authour; banishment; basil; behalfe; belieue; bellarmyne; belonging; bene; besydes; betweene; bishops; blackwell; bloud; body; booke; breues; byn; calumniation; cap; cardinall; cast; catholicke; catholicke religion; cause; certayne; charge; chiefe; christian; church; churches; clauses; clemency; comfort; commeth; comming; common; comparison; confidence; conscience; conteyneth; continuall; contradiction; contrary; councell; countrey; countryes; credit; crowne; cruell; cyuill; day; dayes; dealing; death; declaration; defence; deuised; different; dignity; discourse; diuers; doctrine; doe; dominions; doth; doubt; ecclesiasticall; edward; eebo; effect; elizabeth; emperour; end; england; english; equiuocation; euen; euery; euident; euill; example; eyes; eyther; fall; false; farre; fathers; fauour; feare; forme; fourth; france; freedome; fynd; gaue; generall; giue; god; gods; good; gouernment; great; greater; gregorie; ground; gyuen; hand; hard; hart; hath; haue; hauing; head; heauen; heere; height; henry; highnes; himselfe; holy; honour; hope; images; iniury; iudgment; iulian; iust; iustice; king; kingdome; knowne; kynd; large; late; lawes; lawfull; lay; layd; leo; lesse; letter; lib; liberty; life; light; like; little; lord; lyfe; maiesty; man; manner; matters; meane; meaning; men; mens; mercy; minister; mistaking; mother; mynd; nabuchodonosor; nations; naturall; nature; needs; neuer; new; noble; non; notwithstanding; num; oath; obedience; obiected; occasion; odious; offer; old; order; ouer; owne; pag; page; paragraph; partes; particuler; passe; pastour; paulus; people; persecution; persons; peter; place; pope; power; poynt; poyntes; poyson; present; priests; princes; print; priuate; proceeding; profession; proofe; proposition; protestants; proue; proueth; pryde; publicke; punished; purpose; queene; question; reader; reason; regard; religion; respect; rest; robert; rome; royall; said; said oath; saith; sake; saluation; satisfaction; sauiour; saying; scotland; scriptures; sea; second; seemeth; seene; sense; sentence; seruant; serue; setting; seuerall; shew; small; sort; soueraigne; soules; speach; speake; spirituall; state; statute; store; strange; subiects; substance; sufficient; sundry; supremacy; supreme; sweare; sworne; synne; taking; tcp; temporall; text; themselues; therby; therof; thē; things; thinke; tie; ties; togeather; toledo; touching; true; truth; tyme; tytle; violence; vnder; vnlawfull; vntill; vnto; vpon; vse; want; way; whatsoeuer; wheras; wherin; whome; witt; woman; wordes; works; world; writeth; yeares; yield; yow; ● ● cache: A09102.xml plain text: A09102.txt item: #7 of 68 id: A19445 author: Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Bishop (1598-1621 : Cotton) title: William, by the prouidence of God, Bishop of Exeter, to all and singular archdeacons, officials, parsons ... and all other ecclesiasticall officers ... greeeting [sic] whereas His Majesty, for the seasoning of all youth in their due alleageance, hath caused a booke to bee compiled and imprinted ... intituled God and the King ... date: 1616.0 words: 1733 flesch: 58 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A19445) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28975) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: alleageance; bee; bishop; booke; characters; church; diocesse; early; eebo; english; euery; exeter; eyther; god; hath; latine; men; officers; officials; parsons; said; tcp; tei; text; william; youth cache: A19445.xml plain text: A19445.txt item: #8 of 68 id: A27405 author: Benson, Gervase, d. 1679. title: The cry of the oppressed from under their oppressions, ascending up to Him, who will rebuke the oppressor and devourer, and deliver the innocent some of the sufferings of the people of God, called Quakers, concerning tythes and oaths, &c. : by the branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter root of Episcopacy, which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid presbytery ... date: 1656.0 words: 14194 flesch: 72 summary: Widow Slee and Richard Slee , For Tyth of the value of eleven shillings two pence , had taken away two Chaldrons , four pewter dishes , two pans , and a sack worth twenty eight shillings . For the value of eleven shillings six pence pretended to be due unto Leonard Esh , an Impropriator called , had Goods taken from him worth six pounds , which they 〈◊〉 to five pound , and restored nothing to the owner again . keywords: act; aforesaid; age; alexander; answer; bayliffs; brasse; christ; clerk; colour; commission; conscience; contrary; corn; county; court; cow; cow worth; dishes; doth; exchequer; false; fletcher; fruits; george; gilpin; god; goods; great; hath; henry; horse; horse worth; hutton; iames; iohn; john; judgement; justices; law; lay; like; man; mare; mare worth; mark; men; ministers; months; nation; nay; oaths; oppressed; oppressions; oxen; pan; parish; pay; peacock; pence; peny; people; pewter; platters; pot; pound; power; priest; repair; richard; right; robert; sacks; said; said priest; saith; sake; servants; shall; sheep; shillings; slee; son; steeple; teachers; temporall; text; thereabouts; things; thomas; tyth; tythes; use; value; warrant; william; wilson; world; worth; writ; yea; year cache: A27405.xml plain text: A27405.txt item: #9 of 68 id: A27406 author: Benson, Gervase, d. 1679. title: A second testimony concerning oaths and swearing in answer to a book entituled The case of the Quakers relating to oathes stated by J.S., or, An appendix to a book written in the year 1668 in answer to Allan Smallwood ... wherein is fully cleared the command of Christ and practice of the apostles concerning swearing from the corrupt glosses, limited sense and meaning of J.S. / by Gervase Benson. date: 1675.0 words: 9828 flesch: 52 summary: 1. That Christians of the highest Rank and greatest Proficiency , may lawfully in some Cases confirm the Truth with an Oath , and that they so may do , he pretends to prove from the Practice and Example of the Apostle Paul , who both knew the Mind of Christ , and served God in the Spirit in the Gospel of his Son , and yet as J. S. pretends , did frequently confirm what he asserted in such like Forms of sacred Oathes as these , viz. 4. 2. without observing any set Form of Words , or adding of any outward Sign or Pledge , whereby it might be distinguished from Witness bearing , and known to be an Oath ; for how could the Apostle , who was dead to the Law , by which an Oath or Swearing in some Cases was required , live in the frequent Practice of Swearing , contrary to the Command of Christ in the Gospel , Swear not at all , &c. and yet have the Testimony of the Spirit of God , that he served God in the Spirit , in the Gospel of his Son , and not in the Oldness of the Letter ? Rom. 7. 2. 2 Cor. keywords: acts; answer; apostle; bearing; book; carnal; cases; christ; christians; command; conversion; day; evident; example; forms; gentiles; god; gospel; hath; holy; jesus; jews; law; lord; mat; new; oath; paul; people; prophecy; said; saith; scriptures; sign; speech; spirit; swearing; tcp; temple; testament; testimony; text; things; time; true; truth; viz; witness; worship; yea cache: A27406.xml plain text: A27406.txt item: #10 of 68 id: A27407 author: Benson, Gervase, d. 1679. title: A true testimony concerning oaths & swearing &c. as also an answer to the subject matter contained in twelve arguments or reasons laid down in a sermon preached at Carlisle, Aug. 17, 1664 by Allan Smallwood ... to prove that our savior did not forbid all swearing : wherein is fully cleared the command of Christ and his apostle James swear not at all ... / by Ger. Benson. date: 1669.0 words: 19742 flesch: 58 summary: And therefore A. S. is worthy of blame , in affirming so confidently , That if Swearing be enjoyned by the Moral Law , it must be of as much force now as ever : And it may be of concern to A. S. before he begin his History of Oaths , that he find out some other Law of God , than that he call Moral , to ground the lawfulness of Oaths upon , lest he build upon a sandy Foundation ; and so labour in vain ; For himself acknowledgeth ( in pag. 303. of his Reply to F.H. ) it was a certain truth , That Christ gave no new Command in matters of Oaths , nor in any other , more than what was formerly enjoyned in the Moral Law. And besides , in his Epistle to the Reader , he saith , That no Orthodox man had ever said , That Oaths were ever any Gospel Ordinance , ( or to that effect ) but on the contrary their Tenent is , That they are commanded in the Moral Law ; which Law being abolished ( as before is proved ) by Christ , and no other Law of God being found that requires Swearing under the Gospel ; but on the contrary , a positive Law of Christ given to his Disciples , Not to swear at all ; It cannot be of any service to the Lord , or his People , to write such a History : keywords: answer; apostle; argument; bearing; beginning; cause; christ; christ jesus; command; contrary; covenant; creatures; day; disciples; doth; end; eternal; evil; faith; father; gal; gentiles; god; good; gospel; ground; hath; heart; heb; israel; jesus; law; light; lord; love; man; mat; men; mind; moral; moses; neighbour; new; oath; people; perfect; power; reason; righteousness; rom; said; scriptures; sin; spirit; swearing; tcp; testament; testimony; text; things; thou; time; transgression; true; true witness; truth; way; wisdom; witness; words; world cache: A27407.xml plain text: A27407.txt item: #11 of 68 id: A28913 author: Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662. title: The dutie and danger of swearing opened in a sermon preached at York, February 3, 1655, the day of swearing the lord maior / by Edward Bowles ... date: 1655.0 words: 10813 flesch: 61 summary: Every unnecessary Oath is a vain Oath , and litigious persons who occasion many Oathes for the decision of their needlesse controversies , will finde they have much to answer for ; their sins against charitie by contentions , against justice by vexations , and against the Name of God by calling men to swear about that which is hardly worthy a mans going over the threshold to prove . The day is hastening upon us when we shall have no other refuge but the Name of the Lord , which is a strong Power to the righteous , Proverbs 18. 10. and how sad will it be to finde such a repulse as this , What have you to do take my Name in your mouthes , which you have profaned and suffered to be profaned , for want of executing the Power and Trust committed to you by God and men ? Is not every mans particular burthen heavie enough for him to bear ? keywords: act; bowles; case; christ; citie; consideration; creatures; day; deal; defects; doth; dutie; early; edward; end; english; excuse; expression; false; folly; god; good; great; hath; heaven; heed; help; hold; honour; house; israel; judgement; justice; law; lawfull; lesse; life; like; little; lord; maior; matter; matth; men; moses; nay; non; oath; oathes; occasion; onely; particular; passage; people; persons; pharisees; place; possible; power; promise; promissory; respect; righteousnesse; roman; saith; saviour; scripture; self; selves; sermon; short; sin; strife; sweareth; swearing; text; things; thou; thy; time; true; truth; unnecessary; use; vain; way; word; work; worship; york cache: A28913.xml plain text: A28913.txt item: #12 of 68 id: A29790 author: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. title: The reasons of the new converts taking the oaths to the present government in a dialogue / by the author of the Reasons of Mr. Bay's conversion. date: 1691.0 words: 12258 flesch: 68 summary: Now then Tim , since I was so bold as to make the Dr ▪ s Conversion no miracle at all , you are not to expect that I should assign any miraculous Reasons for it but onely such as are frequent and common in the World ; so I will begin with that which ever since the Creation of the World has had a mighty influence upon men of all Countries , and Degrees , and Religions . Why then I must tell thee Tim ▪ in plain downright English , that I wonder full as much , as the Dutchman did at 〈◊〉 above mentioned Passage , that thou should'st ever have the assurance to 〈◊〉 the Dr's Conversion , as thou callest it , upon 〈◊〉 for such a strange piece of News : For to give you my Sen●●●●●● 〈◊〉 for all ●pon this occasion , I rather wonder that it was so late before he reconciled himself to the Government , than that he was prevailed with to do it at all . keywords: author; best; better; books; brethren; business; care; case; certain; characters; church; conscience; conversion; country; dear; dialogue; different; discretion; dissenters; divines; doctor; eebo; england; english; fellow; freem; freeman; friend; gentlemen; good; government; great; hands; heart; honest; honour; house; interest; late; little; long; loyalty; man; matter; nay; new; news; oaths; obedience; occasion; old; opinion; oxford; particular; passive; people; person; piece; place; plain; play; pleased; point; poor; porcupine; present; prince; prithee; question; ready; reasons; reign; religion; reputation; satisfied; scandal; self; sir; story; subject; swear; swearing; taking; tcp; text; thing; thou; tim; time; title; town; trouble; true; truth; turn'd; use; way; works; world; wou'd cache: A29790.xml plain text: A29790.txt item: #13 of 68 id: A29793 author: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. title: The weesils a satyrical fable, giving an account of some argumental passages happening in the Lion's Court about Weesilion's taking the oaths. date: 1691.0 words: 4218 flesch: 78 summary: Suppose I should , what would the Subject say , That I thus long have seem'd to disobey ? Wife Weesil The Subjects are a Crew of little Mice , Rich drowsie Moles , blunt Rats , and Bruits unwise ; You Clergy top upon them all with ease , Your Name will quash a thousand when you please ; Write 'em your Reasons , pop some Logick in 't , 'T will get at least Ten Pound a Sheet for Print ? 'T is in vain to sit And think to feed upon your scraps of Wit ; I must lay up against a rainy Day ▪ And hoard a Stock , lest you are snatch'd away ; As with your own Diseases , and my draining You quickly may , for you 'r each day complaining ; And then perhaps at last you 'l have the Grace To Joynture me in your Resistance case ; Or else instead of Treasure will bequeath Some Practical Discourses about Death ; But for a good support I may go seek , If puking Conscience thus can make you squeak . keywords: argumental; books; case; characters; conscience; court; creation; early; eebo; encoding; english; faith; fit; good; grace; heart; hus; images; late; life; lion; little; long; ne're; new; oaths; online; oxford; partnership; phase; place; reasons; rules; section; sense; tcp; tei; text; tho; time; town; true; turn; way; weesil; weesilion; wife; wife weesil; wise; work; xml cache: A29793.xml plain text: A29793.txt item: #14 of 68 id: A31361 author: Caton, William, 1636-1665. title: An epistle to King Charles the II sent from Amsterdam in Holland, the 28 of the 10 month, 1660 wherein is contained certain orders and laws there, concerning the liberty granted to those which cannot take up arms, nor swear, which laws there do yet continue : as also several arguments shewing that the people called Quakers are no popish recusants, who are cast into prison for not swearing : with advice & direction to King Charles, that his tendernesse may appear likewise to tender consciences, who keep to their yea and nay, that if they break their yea and nay, they may be punished as for breaking an oath / William Caton. date: 1660.0 words: 5559 flesch: 41 summary: Moreover ( O King ) if Thou be not satisfied in Thy self concerning the conscientiousnesse of those People in thy Realm ( that cannot swear ) the Truth of their Doctrines , and the equitablenesse of their Principles ; then chuse forth some of Thy ablest Divines , and let them have a fair Dispute in Thy Presence , and in the presence of judicious Men that fear God , and will judge impartially of the things they shall hear discussed , that so the Truth may be manifested and embraced , and Errour and erroneous opinions discovered and avoided . Carole Rex , FOrasmuch as the Lord hath been pleased to permit Thee to sit upon Thy Fathers Throne , and to sway the Scepter in England , after Thy sojourning some years in a strange Land , where Thou was invironed with strangers , and sometimes compassed about with many fears , and then did grief with sorrow of mind attend Thee , when Thy Subjects had dissented from Thee , Thy enemies prevailed over Thee , and Thy trusty Friends obstructed from communicating of their substance to Thee , thereby to have done Thee a pleasure : keywords: act; aforesaid; anabaptists; caton; certain; charles; christ; church; city; consciences; contrary; day; dayes; god; hath; holland; king; laws; liberty; lord; magistrates; men; nay; oath; order; people; popish; popish recusants; prince; recusants; snare; tender; text; thee; things; thou; thy; william; worship; yea cache: A31361.xml plain text: A31361.txt item: #15 of 68 id: A31514 author: Learned divine. title: Certaine queries of some tender conscienced christians about the late protestation commended to them by the House of Commons now assembled in the high and honourable court of Paliament [sic] : wherein they desire to bee resolved concerning written by a Learned Divine. date: 1641.0 words: 3125 flesch: 63 summary: I understād this so farre as they shall bee evidenced to me , by the standing lawes of this Kingdome , not repugnant to the lawes of God , to be undoubted priviledges and rights , and further the maintenance of these rights of Subjects , I understand not with reference to one another , to be hereby bound to imbroyle my selfe in every private mans quarrell , though I conceive right , but with reference to the publike State . 3. I sweare to maintain the power and priviledge of Parliaments , and the lawfull liberty and rights of Subjects . keywords: authority; bee; case; certaine; christians; church; commons; conscience; court; divine; doctrine; england; english; hath; high; honourable; house; late; lawfull; necessity; oath; parliament; popery; power; protestation; queries; religion; rights; severall; state; subjects; tender; text; wee cache: A31514.xml plain text: A31514.txt item: #16 of 68 id: A33303 author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. title: Englands covenant proved lawful and necessary also at this time both by Scripture and reason together with sundry answers to the usual objections made against it / by S.C. date: 1643.0 words: 5962 flesch: 51 summary: Had the Stationer given me but some few dayes warning , I would according to my poore abilities have added something for the enlargement of it : but presuming yet that some abler Person may happily undertake the worke : in the interim this is once againe sent abroad , that so the Ignorant may be informed of the weightinesse of avow , and Covenant : that the doubtfull may be resolved concerning the Lawfulnesse of this in hand ; and that all may be excited to the carefull performance of what they binde themselves to hereby : If in any of these thou receivest satisfaction , and Benefit , praise God , and pray for him who is Thine in the Lord S. C. July , 28 , 1643. 2. Observing the incessant and indefatigable Plots of the Enemies of God , and his Cause , either by open violence , or secret fraud to oppresse , or undermine the Power and purity of our Religion , and to introduce Popery instead thereof : They have therefore thought fit by this Covenant , to lay a stronger engagement upon every one to detect and discover , and oppose whatsoever may tend to the prejudice of the one , or to the furtherance of the other : but withall considering that the major part of those which are to enter into it either for want of Information may scruple some part of it , or doe it aubitante conscientiâ , with a doubting Conscience , which will make it a sinne to them ) or through inconsideratenesse may doe it hand over head , without understanding , or a just prepondering of the strong engagement which they lay upon themselves hereby , which will make them to breake it as lightly , as they undertooke it rashly . keywords: answers; assistance; bee; bond; branch; cause; civill; consent; covenant; doe; englands; english; evill; forces; god; gods; great; hand; hath; himselfe; judgements; king; kingdome; late; lawfull; lawfulnesse; liberties; like; matter; necessary; necessity; oath; objections; owne; parliament; persons; power; present; proved; reason; religion; religious; sacred; selves; severall; strong; subject; taking; text; thing; thou; time; vow; vve; wee cache: A33303.xml plain text: A33303.txt item: #17 of 68 id: A34075 author: Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699. title: The nature and usefulness of solemn judicial swearing with the impiety and mischief of vain and false-swearing in a sermon preached July 14th, 1681, in the cathedral church of S. Peter in York at the assizes for that county / by Thomas Comber. date: 1682.0 words: 10457 flesch: 75 summary: Orpheus imposed an Oath upon his Scholars ( not to reveal the Secrets of his Art to Profane Ears ) with all the Authority which Religious Terror could give it a : It would be too tedious to reckon up all the Religious Ceremonies by which the Gentiles made their Oaths Sacred : their use of Priests and Temples , Altars and Sacrifices , on this Occasion , were all intended to teach Men that Golden Precept of Pythagoras , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Reverence an Oath , and to mind them , that they did Swear by a Greater than themselves . i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text , Hellenisticè Comparativum pro Superlativo , i. e. keywords: ancient; apostle; appeal; authority; best; bond; book; cap; cases; cause; certain; christians; common; confirmation; courts; crime; custom; discourse; divine; dreadful; early; earth; eebo; end; english; evil; false; fear; general; god; gods; good; greater; hath; heaven; holy; honour; images; impiety; james; jews; judge; judgment; judicial; justice; law; lawful; laws; lib; lies; majesty; man; men; mind; nature; necessary; oath; occasion; old; original; pag; parties; perjury; philo; plain; power; promise; reason; religion; religious; reverence; sacred; saith; security; selves; sin; solemn; souls; strife; swearing; tcp; text; things; tit; true; truth; use; vain; witness; witnesses; words; world; yea cache: A34075.xml plain text: A34075.txt item: #18 of 68 id: A34536 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: An enquiry into the oath required of non-conformists by an act made at Oxford wherein the true meaning of it, and the warrantableness of taking it, is considered / by John Corbett ... date: 1682.0 words: 4559 flesch: 59 summary: For the Words of a Law are many times more rigorous than the intent ; nevertheless , they are but subservient to it , and may not be urged to the perverting of it . 4. It is Rational to consider this Law not by it self alone , but as it is a Law of this Realm , and in Conjunctionwith the other Laws there ; of and consequently to interpret it , farre as the Words will bear , in a sense consistent with the constitution of the Realm , and with the other Laws , and with the ordinary legal Practice . keywords: alteration; arms; authority; case; church; declared; eebo; endeavour; english; good; government; intent; interpretation; king; law; lawful; laws; legal; makers; meaning; oath; open; ordinary; oxford; person; practice; pretence; publick; rational; reason; sense; state; subjects; taking; tcp; text; time; true; words cache: A34536.xml plain text: A34536.txt item: #19 of 68 id: A36240 author: Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. title: Concerning the care of taking the new oath of fealty and allegiance with a declaration, &c. date: 1689.0 words: 6719 flesch: 58 summary: The Government was then also already setled without K. and House of Lords , without any Sin of the Royal Party , from whom this security was required for the future . But is certain that the very owning of another as K. the very abetting him , the holding correspondence with him where it may be avoided , the entertaining him , and voluntarily relieving him , especially after a warning by Proclamation , is always judged and condemned for High Treason whenever Laws are allowed to take their course . keywords: active; allegiance; books; case; circumstances; concerned; consistent; declaration; duties; duty; eebo; english; fealty; feudal; government; honour; imposers; jure; laws; liege; life; limbs; lord; military; neutrality; new; oaths; obligation; original; particulars; peace; persons; possession; possessors; present; principles; promise; reason; right; sense; subjects; swearers; taking; tcp; tenure; terrene; text; things; way cache: A36240.xml plain text: A36240.txt item: #20 of 68 id: A37405 author: Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665. title: A Declaration sent to the King of France and Spayne from the Catholiques or rebells in Ireland vvith a manifesto of the covenant or oath they have made and taken for the defence of the Catholique league against the Protestants in that kingdome : vvherein is discovered their treacherous practizes under the pretence of religion and their bloody actions full of cruelty and barbarisme / ...translated out of French by R. C. Gent. date: 1642.0 words: 2871 flesch: 51 summary: 9. All indifferently and of whatsoever condition they are shall proportionably contribute of the goods which they poss●sse within every County to the necessities of the affaires of the said Counties those summes which the Directors or the greatest part of them shall appoint under the penalty of paying amends by them the said Directors so appointed . 18. Lastly , it is fo●bidden under paine of death to carry or cause to bee carried any provision or ammunition into places where the enemy doth quarter , or to have any intelligence or commerce either by word or pen with any Captaine or Souldiers of theirs to the preiudice of the cause . keywords: a37405; armes; bee; books; catholicks; catholiques; cause; common; covenant; declaration; defence; directors; early; english; france; goods; ireland; irish; king; kingdome; lawes; league; manifesto; new; oath; pretence; protestants; rebells; religion; said; spayne; text; vvith; whatsoever cache: A37405.xml plain text: A37405.txt item: #21 of 68 id: A39341 author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707. title: A clergy-man of the Church of England his vindication of himself for reading His Majesties late declaration. With allowance. date: 1688.0 words: 1687 flesch: 65 summary: Ego quidem Jussioni Subjectus , eandem Legem per diversas terrarum pa●… transmitti feci , & quia Lex ipsa Omnipotenti Deo minime concordat , ecce per 〈◊〉 gestionis meae paginam serenissimis Dominis nunciavi Utrobique ergo quae d●… exolui , qui & Imperatori Obedientiam praebui , & pro Deo quod sensi minime t●… 〈◊〉 towards Men , I resolv'd to submit to this Order , upon these , and the 〈◊〉 Considerations , That Our Sovereign Lord the King , has a Right to Declare or make known his Mind as to any Matter whatsoever , to every ●…e of his Subjects : And Consequently that he has a Right to Constrain ●…l Priests and Deacons to be his Instruments to make his Mind known by ●…eading any DECLARATION , &c. I was prompted to these thoughts my Remembrance of those words of St. Gregory , which I took special 〈◊〉 of Twenty years since . keywords: books; characters; church; clergy; declaration; early; edmund; eebo; encoding; england; english; god; images; king; known; law; lord; man; online; oxford; partnership; phase; tcp; tei; text; works; xml cache: A39341.xml plain text: A39341.txt item: #22 of 68 id: A39572 author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665. title: One antidote more, against that provoking sin of swearing, by reason of which this land now mourneth given forth from under the burden of the oppressed seed of God, by way of reply both to Henry Den's epistle about the lawfulness, antiquity, and universality of an oath, and his answers to the Quakers objections against it, recommended (by him) to all the prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint, rather then the violation of their consciences : and also to Jeremiah Ives his printed plea for swearing, entitituled, The great case of conscience opened, &c. about the lawfulness or unlawfulness of swearing, which said reply to these two opposers of the truth, as it is in Jesus, is recommended not onely to all the prisons in this city and nation, and to all such real Christians, as chuse restraint rather then the violation of their consciences, but also, to all such nominal Christians out of prison, as, rather then restrain, chuse to purchase their earthly liberties by swearing, to the violation of the command of Christ, who saith, Mat. 5.33, swaer not at all. Jam. 5.12, above all things my brethren swear not / by Samuel Fisher ... date: 1660.0 words: 35411 flesch: 49 summary: Doth not the consent of Scripture herein confute the swearing Baptist , while it sayes , Swear not at all , and that the customs of the Nations are vain ? Is not the Law that 's in Heathens hearts , whereby they are accused or excused , the Law of God , whose Law is Light ? And is not that Law spiritual , ( though universal ? ) yet will H. D. here call it natural , Natures finger ? Which , if he speaks of the Nature that the world ( excepting the f●…●…aints ) is found in while in the fall , and in the imagination of mans heart , is a Nature , and a Finger that writes onely evil , vanity and deceit ; for whatever is good , holy , true and just , is written in man by the Law , by the Light and Spirit of the living God , by the finger of ●…od in the fleshly Tables of his heart , of which his writing with his finger in Tables of Stone of old , was but the Type , 2 Cor. But H. D. being yet where I once was with him , among those who look for the Kingdom of Heaven , which is ( {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ) within men ( even those men that never enter it , as Christ said to the Pharisees , bidding his Disciples not to go forth to look for it among them , who drew outwards with their Lo here , and lo there ) in outward observations , with which it comes not , is so innocently ignorant where heaven is , that ( though more darkly and diminutively , then some others , who open wider ) in some degree ( witness his two secret jerks at the Quaker , and the Light within , p. 5 , and 8. of his perverting Paper ) he rather blasphemes the name of God , and his Tabernacle , i. e. the Light in which God dwells , is , and is known ; and those , ( i. e. those Quakers ) who dwell with Christ in Heaven . keywords: adjure; answer; antiquity; apostle; authority; book; brethren; case; ceremonious; ceremony; charge; children; christ; christians; chuse; city; command; common; communication; confess; conscience; consent; contrary; courts; customs; day; dead; death; disciples; doth; earth; end; english; evidence; evil; exception; exorbitant; express; fall; false; fear; finger; forbidden; frequent; general; god; gods; good; gospel; great; ground; h. d.; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; holy; i. i.; iam; iesus; ives; j. i.; king; know; law; lawful; lawfulness; laws; life; light; like; little; living; lord; love; lye; magistrates; manner; matter; matth; meer; men; moon; nations; nature; nay; new; non; oath; old; onely; ordinary; ought; paul; people; persons; place; practice; precept; priest; prison; prohibition; proof; prophesie; prophets; quakers; quoth; reason; rep; righteousness; rise; roman; sacrifice; said; saints; saith; sayes; scripture; second; seed; self; sense; shew; sin; solemn; spirit; strife; substance; sware; swearing; taking; terms; testament; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; true; truth; type; universal; universality; use; verily; violation; viz; way; wil; wise; witness; word; work; yea; years cache: A39572.xml plain text: A39572.txt item: #23 of 68 id: A40220 author: Fox, George, 1624-1691. title: Our covenant with God and with all men is peace and life and light and salvation date: 1660.0 words: 1603 flesch: 65 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40220 of text R26718 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F1871B). Title from first lines of text. keywords: a40220; christ; covenant; earth; english; god; heaven; life; light; love; men; nay; peace; people; power; saith; salvation; text; yea cache: A40220.xml plain text: A40220.txt item: #24 of 68 id: A41426 author: Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693. title: A true relation what sentence was passed upon the servants of the Lord by one who is in commission to do justice, called by the world Sir William Walter, with the consent of the rest of those called justices, that sat upon the bench with him at that time, because we could not swear for conscience sake, but abide in the doctrine of Christ, who saith swear not at all ... date: 1660.0 words: 2684 flesch: 37 summary: And this I would have both you and others to know , that you cannot ( neither is it in your power to deprive us from being protected by the KING of Heaven and Earth , who is King of Kings , and Lord of Lords , and he is our King , Law-giver and Judge , and he doth ( and will ) protect and defend us , and in his own time he will deliver us out of the hands of our enemies , and out of the hands of all the wicked and ungodly , and this we do verily beleeve that our God whom we serve and obey will do for us , as he hath done great things for us already , blessed and praised be his great and glorious name for evermore ; and our only hope , trust , and confidence is in the Lord , who will never leave nor forsake his own people that puts their whole trust and confidence in him ; and in the mean time we are contented with our present condition , and what the Lord hath suffered to come to passe , knowing that all things which the Lord brings , or suffers to be brought to passe concerning his people , will work altogether for their good ; and this is suffered by the Lord to be thus done unto us , for the exercise and tryal of our faith and patience , and the Lord hath made us willing to submit unto his will , and blessed be his glorious name for evermore that counts us worthy to suffer for his sake . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A41426 of text R37398 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing G1089). keywords: bench; christ; command; conscience; consent; english; god; goodaire; jaylor; justices; king; lord; people; rest; saith; sake; sentence; servants; sir; text; thomas; time; true; walter; william; world cache: A41426.xml plain text: A41426.txt item: #25 of 68 id: A42479 author: Gauden, John, 1605-1662. title: A discourse concerning publick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings written by Dr. Gauden ..., in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers. date: 1662.0 words: 24435 flesch: 56 summary: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Ep●●●et . I know the roughness or smoothness of mens educations and complexions , like Esaus and ●acob's , have much influence upon their opinions and conversations ; yea , and upon their consciences too . keywords: account; actions; agreeable; aim; ancient; apostle; austin; authority; bare; best; bishops; blessed; books; care; cases; cause; charitable; charity; christ; christians; church; churches; civil; clear; command; commanded; common; conscience; consent; contrary; creature; credit; cruel; day; depraved; design; dissenters; divine; divinity; doth; duty; earth; eebo; eminent; end; endeavour; ends; england; english; errors; established; estates; eternal; evangelical; evil; exact; example; express; expressions; faith; false; fancies; fancy; fathers; fear; forbidden; form; general; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; great; greater; grotius; ground; hands; hath; hearts; heaven; holy; honest; honour; humane; humanity; iewes; indulgence; innocent; instances; intention; interpretation; james; jealousies; jer; jews; judgement; judicial; justice; kind; kingdom; late; law; lawful; lawfulness; laws; learning; legal; letter; life; light; like; limited; little; lives; look; lord; love; lying; main; majesty; man; manner; mans; matter; meaning; men; mens; mind; moral; morality; nation; nature; nay; necessary; need; negative; neighbours; new; non; oaths; obedience; occasion; old; opinions; order; ordinary; particular; parties; patience; peace; penalties; people; perjury; persons; piety; places; point; poor; popular; power; practise; primitive; principles; private; proceedings; profane; profession; prudence; publick; quakers; question; rational; reason; regard; religion; religious; reputation; reverence; righteousness; rule; sacred; saint; sanctity; satisfaction; saviour; scope; scripture; scruples; second; sed; self; sense; sermon; set; severity; sin; small; sober; solemn; souls; special; speech; spirit; spreading; subjects; sufficient; superstitious; sure; sware; swearing; tcp; text; things; thought; times; true; true god; truth; unlawful; use; usual; vain; vers; way; wayes; welfare; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; yea; ● ● cache: A42479.xml plain text: A42479.txt item: #26 of 68 id: A43269 author: Hellier, Henry, 1662?-1697. title: A sermon preached before the University of Oxford, December 4, 1687 concerning the obligation of oaths / by Henry Hellier. date: 1688.0 words: 9773 flesch: 61 summary: But if there never were any such power , or if that power were given away , or if that Superior hath consented to Statutes , and in them to oaths whereby men have sworn to certain things which are limitations of the said power ; then the matter of the oath being just , and charitable , and encouraged by a lawful Authority , there being , beside the inferiors oath , the superiors own * act there is perhaps scarce any pretence 0106 upon which such an oath can be accounted invalid , or supposed to imply any father limitation . A sermon preached before the University of Oxford, December 4, 1687 concerning the obligation of oaths / by Henry Hellier. keywords: answer; breaking; cases; contrary; day; doth; duty; eebo; end; english; faith; false; far; fear; general; gibeonites; god; good; great; greater; guilty; hath; holy; imposer; impossible; intention; israel; justice; keeping; kind; known; laws; leave; like; man; mans; matter; men; need; oath; obligation; obliged; oxford; particular; person; place; power; promise; reason; religion; right; rule; sake; self; selves; sense; sin; statutes; sufficient; swear; swearer; sweareth; swearing; tcp; text; thing; time; true; use; words; worship cache: A43269.xml plain text: A43269.txt item: #27 of 68 id: A43978 author: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. title: De corpore politico, or, The elements of law, moral and politick with discourses upon severall heads, as of [brace] the law of nature, oathes and covenants, several kinds of government : with the changes and revolutions of them / by Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury. date: 1652.0 words: 42999 flesch: 67 summary: Why therefore may not men that foresee the Benefit of Concord , continually maintain the same without compulsion , as well as they ? To which I answer , That amongst other living Creatures , there is no Question of Precedence in their owne Species , nor strife about Honour , or acknowledgement of one anothers wisdome , as there is amongst Men , from whence arise Envie and Hatred of one towards another , and from thence Sedition and War . And the difficulty is this ; We have amongst us the Word of God for the Rule of our Actions : Now if wee shall subiect our selves to men also , obliging our selves to do such Actions , as shall be by them commanded , when the Commands of God and Man shall differ , we are to obey God , rather then man ; And consequently , the Covenant of general Obedience to man is unlaw●ull . keywords: able; absolute; actions; almighty; apostles; appeareth; aristocracy; assembly; authority; benefit; body; breach; case; certain; chap; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; civil; command; common; common wealth; conscience; consent; consisteth; contrary; controversie; counsel; covenant; danger; day; death; defence; democracy; divided; divine; doe; dominion; doth; effect; elders; end; endeavour; equality; estate; example; faith; father; fear; followeth; forasmuch; force; free; future; general; giveth; god; good; government; great; greater; hath; heaven; himselfe; holy; honour; hope; humane; impossible; iniury; iniustice; jesus; joh; judge; judgement; justice; king; kingdome; law; laws; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; lot; magistrates; making; man; manifest; manner; mans; master; men; mind; monarchy; moses; mother; multitude; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; non; number; obedience; obliged; opinion; owne; particular; passions; paul; peace; people; persons; places; pleasure; points; politick; power; present; pretence; private; proceedeth; publick; punishment; question; reason; rebellion; religion; remaineth; required; rest; right; roman; rule; said; salvation; saviour; sayd; scripture; sect; security; sedition; seemeth; self; servant; set; shewed; sorts; soveraign; soveraign power; strength; subiect; subiection; subordinate; succession; sufficient; sum; supposed; sword; text; thereto; thereunto; things; thou; time; title; true; trust; uniust; use; vain; virtue; want; war; way; wealth; whereof; wit; words; world cache: A43978.xml plain text: A43978.txt item: #28 of 68 id: A44801 author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669. title: Oaths no gospel ordinance but prohibited by Christ being in answer to A. Smallwood, D.D. to his book lately published, being a sermon preached at Carlile, 1664, wherein he hath laboured to prove swearing lawful among Christians, his reasons and arguments are weighed and answered, and the Doctrines of Christ vindicated against the conceptions and interpretations of men, who would make it void / by a sufferer for Christ and his doctrine, F.H. date: 1666.0 words: 41261 flesch: 15 summary: Though I do not argue that Christ abolished the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws once commanded , nor abrogated them : yet Bishop Gauden doth , who attain'd , if not to a degree of knowledge and learning , yet to a degree of promotion above A. S. in his Book which he wrote for the information of the Quakers about swearing , he saith in his own words , Christ came to fulfill the Moral Law , however he came in a way of fulfilling to abrogate the Ceremonial , yea and the Politick Lawes too , belonging to the Jewes policy in Church and State ; and herein is the Bishop and the Doctor at odds , the Bishop said , he abrogated the Ceremonial Law , and Judicial Law too , belonging to the Iewes Policy and State : But Doctor Smallwood says , he denies his Assertion ; for says he , We were never under the Judicial Law , and what was never imposed need not be abolished : So then what remains for me to say but this , If Swearing was any part of the Iudicial Law , or did belong to their Political Estate , as it is the judgment of many , but it is evident that swearing was used by the witness before Iudges in Israel in those days to try out their matters according to commandment given of God , as is evident from 19. Deut. Twelfth and last Argument , The consent of the Christian world ; the practice of Emperours , Kings , Princes , Councils , Bishops , and people of all sorts , confirme this truth that Christ notwithstanding these words , ( Swear not at all ) had never forbidden swearing as altogether unlawful ; 'T is true , some of the Fathers in their Homilies , & to the People inveighed much against swearing , as though it had been altogether unlawful , but it was only against Customary Oaths ; Chrysostome in his Homily to the People of Antioch preached so much against Swearing that the People was offended , he told them he would never leave that Sermon till they would leave that prophane custome of Swearing ; but the Fathers were less cautelous , but with great vehemency enveigh'd against common swearing in ordinary discourse ; but not at all intending to take away necessary Oaths ; but Origen in his first Book against Colsus , God is witness of my Conscience ; and Athanatius yet vehemently declaimed against prophane swearing , yet in his Apology to the Emperour Constantius , he sware again and again , the Lord is witness , and his Christ is witness : All which clearly shews they did not disallow the voluntary taking an oath , much less in Judical proceedings , and the Reformed Churches , and the Church of England , and the whole Catholick Church in all times and places approved this Doctrine , that all swearing is not unlawful ; so that it follows that the Church in all Ages was so ignorant as not to understand Christs meaning , or so wicked as to teach and practise quite contrary , or else Christ never meant to forbid all kind of swearing , ( to assert the former ) were to profess all that went before either dunces or devils . keywords: a. s.; angels; answer; apostle; argument; authority; better; book; cause; ceremonial; ceremony; christ; christians; church; command; commandment; communication; conscience; contrary; covenant; creatures; day; death; denyed; deut; disciples; discourse; divers; doctor; doctrine; doth; duty; earth; end; ends; enemies; england; evident; evil; exception; eye; false; father; fear; forbidden; forme; general; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grant; great; ground; hand; hath; head; hearts; heaven; high; holy; israel; james; jerusalem; jewes; judgment; judicature; judicial; law; lawful; legal; life; like; limited; little; long; lord; love; magistrates; man; manifest; manner; matter; men; mind; ministration; moral; moses; nations; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; needs; neighbour; new; oaths; occasion; old; ordinances; ought; page; people; pharisees; place; power; priest; proceedings; prohibition; promise; reason; reply; rest; righteousness; s. hath; said; saith; scribes; scripture; second; self; service; set; sin; solemn; spirit; state; strife; substance; swearing; tcp; terms; testament; testimony; text; things; thou; thy; time; tooth; transgression; true; truth; unbelief; universal; unlawful; vain; viz; void; way; wisdom; witness; words; work; world; worship; yea cache: A44801.xml plain text: A44801.txt item: #29 of 68 id: A44835 author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662. title: Antichristianism reproved, and the doctrine of Christ and his apostles justified against swearing in answer to John Tombe's six propositions for the lawfulness of swearing : all which propositions are both against Christ and his apostles doctrine, as is here proved according to the Scriptures ... / by Richard Hubberthorn. date: 1660.0 words: 9420 flesch: 64 summary: As to the fi●st , Rom. 19. where the Apostle saith , for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son , that without ceasing I make mention of you alwaies in my prayers ; is this a proof for men to swear and take oaths either for men or against men , hath not the man hear lost the understanding of a man ? thus to compare and call this the Apostles oath when he takes God to witness that he prayes for the Saints continually , and his saying in Rom 9. ● . By the same argument , may it as well be proved that the Christians and believers in Christ ; may be circumcised , offer innocence , burnt offerings and sacrifices , because for the use of it God gave some directions , and therefore it is lawfull , but as circumcision , innocence , burnt offerings and sacrifices of the Law is ended in Christ , so is the Oaths which was among the Jews in him ended also to the believers , and by him forbidden : for as it was said in old time thou shalt swear , and shalt perform thy oath to the Lord ; but Christ in the 5 of Mat. making mention of the Jews oath which God gave once directions for , yet saith he swere not at all ; here Christ puts an end not onely to frivolous and vain oaths , but to the true oaths which the Jews was once commanded of God to swear , for these oaths are they which Christs words hath relation to , for he came to end the Jews worships and oathes , who is the oath of God , Christ the truth and righteousness of God saith sweare not at all , which ends the Jews which was to swear in truth and righteousness . keywords: abraham; apostles; caesar; chap; charge; christ; christians; command; covenant; david; doctrine; doth; earth; ends; false; fathers; god; greater; hath; jacob; jesus; jews; john; king; land; law; lord; mat; men; nay; non; oath; old; people; roman; saith; scripture; solomon; sware; swear; swearing; text; things; thou; thy; time; tombs; true; truth; words; yea cache: A44835.xml plain text: A44835.txt item: #30 of 68 id: A44847 author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665. title: Supplementum sublatum Iohn Tombes, his Supplement, or Second book about swearing disproved and made void and his abusing the Scripture plainly manifested : against which the truth of Christ's words is vindicated and maintained / in a few words briefly returned to him from Richard Hubberthorne and Samuel Fisher. date: 1661.0 words: 3481 flesch: 61 summary: No , not necessarily ; for whether with or without an accusative case , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 soundeth out no more then some strong asseveration of a thing , as with verily , truly , indeed , or such like ; and differs little more from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek ( with is yea in English ) then the English yea , and yea verily do differ from each other ; witness the Latine adverb nae , with ae dipthong , derived ( as is to be seen in the Latine Dictionaries ) of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek , with eta or long e , which is englished no otherwise then by truly , verily , in very deed , or such like ; and the very Accidence it self makes it a particle of affirming only , and not of swearing . 2 Tim. 4. 1. are alike charges , and that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used 1 Tim. 6. 13. is only to command , or enjoyn , and doth not include an oath , or swearing ; and that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used 2 Tim. 4. 1. signifies no more then I witness before God ; so that as it was told thee before , it is most evident , that Paul at that distance wherein he was from them when he wrote to the Thessalonians and Timothy , either did not charge them to take an Oath , or if he did , they did not take it , nor swear to him ; unless we shall suppose they swore to some other that stood present as Paul's proxy , by word of mouth to exact it of them ; which absurdity is more fit to be exploded then supposed . keywords: book; characters; christ; command; doctrine; early; eebo; english; fisher; god; hath; judges; little; man; oath; particle; people; reply; richard; saith; second; supplement; swearing; tcp; tei; text; thou; tombes; truth; witness; words cache: A44847.xml plain text: A44847.txt item: #31 of 68 id: A45024 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble petition of the countie of Cornvvall date: 1642.0 words: 1026 flesch: 73 summary: To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble petition of the countie of Cornvvall This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A45024 of text R36806 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H3501A). To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble petition of the countie of Cornvvall [no entry] 1642 684 2 0 0 0 0 0 29 C The rate of 29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: a45024; books; cler; cornvvall; cornwall; countie; early; english; esq; excellent; gent; h3501a; humble; iohn; kings; majestie; petition; petitioners; subjects; text; thomas; william; wing cache: A45024.xml plain text: A45024.txt item: #32 of 68 id: A45025 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: The Humble petition of the county of Cornwall to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie subscribed by above seven thousand hands : with His Majesties answer thereunto : whereunto is added the oaths of allegiance and supremacie. date: 1642.0 words: 1715 flesch: 65 summary: The Humble petition of the county of Cornwall to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie subscribed by above seven thousand hands : with His Majesties answer thereunto : whereunto is added the oaths of allegiance and supremacie. The Humble petition of the county of Cornwall to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie subscribed by above seven thousand hands : with His Majesties answer thereunto : whereunto is added the oaths of allegiance and supremacie. keywords: a45025; allegiance; authority; books; cler; cornwall; county; dominions; early; english; esq; excellent; gent; hands; heirs; humble; iohn; kings; majesties; oaths; petition; power; subjects; successors; supremacie; text; thomas; william cache: A45025.xml plain text: A45025.txt item: #33 of 68 id: A45291 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. title: The lavvfvlnes and vnlavvfvlnes of an oath or covenant set downe in short propositions agreeable to the law of God and man and may serve to rectifie the conscience of any reasonable man : very fitting for every man to take into serious consideration in these undutifull times : whether he hath sworne or not sworne to any late or new oath or covenant made by any subordinate authority whatsoever. date: 1643.0 words: 951 flesch: 64 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A45291 of text R7549 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H388). The lavvfvlnes and vnlavvfvlnes of an oath or covenant set downe in short propositions agreeable to the law of God and man and may serve to rectifie the conscience of any reasonable man : very fitting for every man to take into serious consideration in these undutifull times : whether he hath sworne or not sworne to any late or new oath or covenant made by any subordinate authority whatsoever. keywords: agreeable; consideration; covenant; english; god; hall; joseph; law; man; new; oath; propositions; set; short; sworne; text cache: A45291.xml plain text: A45291.txt item: #34 of 68 id: A45317 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. title: Seven irregragable propositions concerning oaths Dedicated to King Charles I. By the right reverend Dr. Jos. Hall, then Lord Bishop of Exon. And printed in the year 1639. date: 1700.0 words: 1521 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: act; authority; books; characters; charles; early; eebo; english; hall; king; man; oath; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; phase; right; soveraign; tcp; tei; text cache: A45317.xml plain text: A45317.txt item: #35 of 68 id: A46595 author: James II, King of England, 1633-1701. title: His Majesties royal letter to his Privy Council of Scotland, concerning his indulgence date: 1687.0 words: 1301 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: beloved; books; characters; council; counsellors; early; eebo; english; indulgence; james; majesties; oath; right; scotland; tcp; tei; text; trusty; wel; works cache: A46595.xml plain text: A46595.txt item: #36 of 68 id: A47255 author: Kennett, White, 1660-1728. title: A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by W.K. ... date: 1689.0 words: 13989 flesch: 54 summary: So that 't is no more necessary or expedient for every Heir , as to the Esse of his being King , to Declare the Conditions immediately upon his coming to the Crown , than 't was requisite for every successive Generation , when the Court of Wards was in force , to declare he held his Lands by Knights Service ; the ancient Tenure of the Estate sufficiently evinc'd the former , and the very Descent of the Crown to the next of Blood , brings with it a tacite implication of all the Immunities and Liberties of the Subjects , in as full and ample a manner , as if they had been repeated a thousand times over . Right , The King is before his Coronation as absolute a Monarch as after : This the Case of Watson and Clark ( who Conspir'd against King James before his Coronation , and were condemn'd of High Treason ) puts beyond all Controversie , and the Reason of this is clear ; the Paction and Agreement between King and People , is an inseperable Concomitant to the Crown , devolves with it to the next Successor , and is the tacite Condition and Terms upon which he accepts the Government . keywords: absolute; account; actions; affairs; allegiance; ancient; argument; authority; body; books; cause; characters; christian; church; circumstances; civil; clear; commands; common; conqueror; conquest; contrary; coronation; crown; day; design; destruction; divine; doctrine; doth; duties; duty; eebo; empire; end; england; english; evidence; evident; express; extraordinary; fidelity; force; general; god; gospel; government; grand; great; happiness; head; high; honour; husband; illegal; jac; james; justice; king; late; lawful; laws; liberties; life; little; lord; magistrate; man; manifest; nation; natural; nature; necessity; new; oath; obedience; obligation; obligatory; obvious; opposition; oxford; particular; passive; peace; people; person; places; plain; politick; positive; power; precepts; present; preservation; pretence; prince; private; proceedings; publick; punishment; rational; reason; relation; religion; right; royal; sacred; safety; scripture; second; self; sense; sermon; society; state; subjects; suffering; superiors; supream; supreme; tcp; text; things; time; transgression; true; undoubted; violence; viz; void; wicked; william; works cache: A47255.xml plain text: A47255.txt item: #37 of 68 id: A47520 author: Kitchin-maid. title: The kitchin-maids answer to the London apprentice's Word to the wavering Levite, &c. being a vindication of the Reverend Dr. Sherlock ... for his taking the oaths. date: 1691.0 words: 4035 flesch: 60 summary: Oaths -- England -- Early works to 1800. Oaths -- Early works to 1800. keywords: answer; apprentice; books; characters; church; contrary; doctor; early; eebo; england; english; good; great; honest; kitchin; lawful; levite; london; long; majesties; man; matter; men; oaths; principles; reason; scruples; self; sherlock; taking; tcp; tei; text; tho; time; wavering; word; works; years cache: A47520.xml plain text: A47520.txt item: #38 of 68 id: A48827 author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. title: The pretences of the French invasion examined for the information of the people of England date: 1692.0 words: 6480 flesch: 48 summary: We see Philip of Spain , who had no Title to be King of England but by his Marriage with Queen Mary , was made King at her Request and in her Right ; but he had not merited so much as our King , and therefore his Title was to cease at her Death . 'T is next to Frenzy to think the Pope and King of France furnish him with Mony , Ships , Forces , &c. only to secure the Protestant Religion and Church of England ; he must be tyed in more than ordinary Bonds , to endeavour the Ruin of both , or no such Favours had been shewn by such a Pope , and such a Persecutor : It cannot be Ease to Roman Catholicks he desires ; They are more at Ease under King William , than under any Protestant King ever since the Reformation : It must therefore be the suppressing all other Religions , and setting up that alone , must engage Rome , France and Lucifer in his Restauration : As for his Promises to us in his Declaration , alas he hath already given greater and stronger to the Pope and French King to the contrary ; and though his Interest , and the Hopes that some will be so mad to believe him , put him upon renewing these Promises to England , yet his Consessor can soon resolve him which Promise is to be kept , whether that pious Catholick Promise to the Holy Father , and the Hector of that Cause , or that extorted one to Hereticks : keywords: absolute; allegiance; books; characters; church; common; consequence; country; design; early; edition; eebo; england; english; europe; france; french; general; good; government; greater; hath; interest; ireland; james; king; late; late king; law; lives; monarchy; nation; nature; necessary; oaths; old; people; possession; power; present; pretences; prince; protestant; religion; return; revenge; right; ruin; set; subjects; succession; tcp; tei; text; thing; throne; time; trade; true; war; wealth; william; yea; zeal cache: A48827.xml plain text: A48827.txt item: #39 of 68 id: A50801 author: Middleton, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1666. title: A declaration published by Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, and Vice-Admirall for the sixe counties of North-Wales setting forth the illegallity and incongruity of a pernicious oath and protestation, imposed upon many peaceable subjects within the said counties (who to avoid plundering or imprisonment) were inforced to take the same : whereby the imposers of the said oath endeavour under the paine of perjury, to make the people to renounce their owne just liberties, and the benefit and protection of the knowne lawes, and to submit to a tyranicall, arbitrary, and slavish government, excerised by the commissioners of array : and likewise, setting forth the use and intentions of the forces raised for the service of the King and Parliament, under the command of the said Sir Thomas Middleton the benefit that the country shall receive by their protection, and what they are to expect that contemne their power. date: 1644.0 words: 3195 flesch: 50 summary: A declaration published by Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, and Vice-Admirall for the sixe counties of North-Wales setting forth the illegallity and incongruity of a pernicious oath and protestation, imposed upon many peaceable subjects within the said counties (who to avoid plundering or imprisonment) were inforced to take the same : whereby the imposers of the said oath endeavour under the paine of perjury, to make the people to renounce their owne just liberties, and the benefit and protection of the knowne lawes, and to submit to a tyranicall, arbitrary, and slavish government, excerised by the commissioners of array : and likewise, setting forth the use and intentions of the forces raised for the service of the King and Parliament, under the command of the said Sir Thomas Middleton the benefit that the country shall receive by their protection, and what they are to expect that contemne their power. A declaration published by Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, and Vice-Admirall for the sixe counties of North-Wales setting forth the illegallity and incongruity of a pernicious oath and protestation, imposed upon many peaceable subjects within the said counties (who to avoid plundering or imprisonment) were inforced to take the same : whereby the imposers of the said oath endeavour under the paine of perjury, to make the people to renounce their owne just liberties, and the benefit and protection of the knowne lawes, and to submit to a tyranicall, arbitrary, and slavish government, excerised by the commissioners of array : and likewise, setting forth the use and intentions of the forces raised for the service of the King and Parliament, under the command of the said Sir Thomas Middleton the benefit that the country shall receive by their protection, and what they are to expect that contemne their power. keywords: array; authority; command; commissioners; counties; declaration; doe; endeavour; english; forces; houses; kingdome; majesties; majesty; middleton; north; oath; papists; parliament; people; persons; power; said; sir; sir thomas; subjects; text; thomas; thomas middleton; wales cache: A50801.xml plain text: A50801.txt item: #40 of 68 id: A50889 author: F. M. title: A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M. date: 1659.0 words: 7387 flesch: 9 summary: Thereupon all the People Armed themselves , and towards Rome they went , where in the Market place he related to the people then assembled the villany committed upon Lucretia ; And moreover he laid abroad the pride of the King himself , the miseries , the infinite toil and pain of the Commons buried as it were under ground , with cleansing and casting of Ditches , voiding and farming of the Sinks ; saying that the men of Rome who were the Conquerors of all Nations about them , were now of Warriors become Quarriors , hewers of Stone , and day-labourers ; thus rehearsing these and other matters , much more grievous and horrible , he so mightily inflamed the multitude , that he caused the King to be deposed and degraded of his Royal State and dignity , yea and to decree and enact , that King Tarquinus and his Wife and Children should be banished for ever , which accordingly was effected ; and after all the Armies and people had forsaken him , Brutus being then appointed Consul , and for fear least the Magistrates and people might at any time after be won by entreaty , or moved by gifts on the Kings part , he caused them to swear , that they would never suffer any to be King at Rome , after which the Senate was fil'd with such as took the same Oath , in lieu of those that were murthered by the Kings command , to the full number of three hundred ▪ so jealous were the people afterwards of their Liberties , that one of their Consuls name being Tarquinus , without they could have any other thing to say against him but his Name , who they said was dangerous to a Free-State , thereupon was perswaded to retire from the City , and Brutus by an act and decree of the Senate , proposed to the people , That all the Race and Linage of the Tarquin's should be exiled and banished , which was accordingly effected . It fell to the lot of this Scaevola to go first , and coming into the Camp with a scain hid under his garment , he presseth in the thickest throng to stand near the Kings Tribunal ; it happened , that then and their the Souldiers were receiving their pay , and the Chancellor or King Porcenas principal Secretary sate together with the King in like aray ; Scaevola fearing to enquire whether of them two were Porcena , least he should discover himself , in lieu of Porcena he killed the Chancellor , and afterwards with his bloody weapon making his way through the fearful multitude , was laid hold on and brought before King Porcena sitting then upon his Throne , to whom he said , I am a Citizen of Rome , and Cajus Mucius is my name , a professed Enemy I confesse , and an Enemy would I have slain , as ready and willing am I to die my self as I was to kill another , for both to do and suffer valiantly is the part of a Noble Roman , and it s not I alone that carry this resolution , against thee O King , there is a long train behind of them that seek to win the same praise and honour , make thee ready therefore and arm thy self if thou think good against this danger , and reckon every hour to be in hazard of thy life , and to have alwayes at the very Court gates thy Enemies sword ; This kind of War we youths of Rome denounce openly to thee , no battel , no fight else shalt thou need to fear , with thee alone will we all one by one have to do , and with no other . keywords: abjuration; army; brutus; cause; chief; civil; countrey; doth; end; england; english; family; force; free; god; good; government; great; hand; history; king; kingly; kingship; late; law; life; like; lucretia; man; manner; narrative; nations; netherlands; oath; page; peace; people; pleasure; porcena; prince; reason; return; right; romans; rome; said; self; set; short; spain; state; subjects; taking; tarquinus; text; thee; thou; time; vide; war; young cache: A50889.xml plain text: A50889.txt item: #41 of 68 id: A52601 author: Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646. title: Two speeches delivered before the subscribing of the Covenant, the 25. of September, at St. Margarets in Westminster the one by Mr. Philip Nye, the other by Mr. Alexander Henderson. date: 1643.0 words: 7347 flesch: 44 summary: God hath set his Covenant like the Heavens , not onely for duration , but like also for extension : The Heavens move and roule about , and so communicate their light , and heat , and vertue , to all places and parts of the earth ; so doth the Covenant of God , so may this gift bee given to other Covenants that are framed to that pattern . It will not bee unworthy your consideration , whether seeing the preservation of Popery hath been by Leagues and Covenants , God may not make a League or Covenant to be the destruction of it : Nay the very rise of Popery seemeth to bee after such a manner by Kings , that is , Kingdomes assenting and agreeing perhaps by some joynt Covenant ( the text saith with one minde , why not then with one mouth ) to give their power and strength unto the Beast , and make war against the Lamb . keywords: alexander; bee; best; brethren; cause; christ; church; churches; covenant; day; earth; end; enemies; england; english; fear; god; good; government; grace; great; greater; hand; hath; hearts; heaven; hee; henderson; honourable; house; jesus; joyn; kingdomes; kings; league; like; lord; man; matter; men; nay; nye; oath; peace; people; persons; philip; power; read; reformation; religion; reverend; saith; scotland; set; solemne; spirit; swear; text; time; wee; words; work; world; yea cache: A52601.xml plain text: A52601.txt item: #42 of 68 id: A53645 author: A. B. title: The Oath of allegiance date: 1678.0 words: 1392 flesch: 58 summary: And I do further swear that I do from my h●● abhor , detest , and abjure as Impious , and Heretical , this damnable doctrine and position , that Pri●● which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their subjects , 〈…〉 ny other whatsoever . 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-06 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Oath of ALLEGIANCE I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge , profess , testifie , and declare in my Conscience befo God and the World , That our Sovereign Lord King Charles is lawful and rightful King of t●● Realm of England , & of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries , And that the Pope n●●ther of himself , nor by any Authority of the Church , or See of Rome , or by any other means with a●● other hath any power or Authority to depose the King , or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdom or Dominons , or to Authorize any forreign Prince to Invade or Annoy him , or his Country , or to dischar●● any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty ; or to give licence or leave to any them to bear Arms , raise tumults , or offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal person State or ●●vernment , or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions : Also I do swear from heart , that notwithstanding any declaration or Sentence of Excommunication , or deprivation made granted , or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors , or by any Authority derived , or ●●tended to be derived from him or his See against the said King , his Heirs or Successors , or any absolut of the said Subjects from their Obedience , I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty , his He and Successors , and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons , their Crown and Dignity by son or colour of any such Sentence or declaration or otherwise , and will do my best endeavour to disc and make known unto his Majesty , his Heirs , and Successors , all Treasons and Traitorous Conspiracies w●● I shall know or hear of to be against him , or any of them . keywords: allegiance; books; characters; early; eebo; encoding; english; general; image; majesties; oath; online; original; oxford; partnership; phase; tcp; tei; text; true; xml; ● ● cache: A53645.xml plain text: A53645.txt item: #43 of 68 id: A53767 author: Oxford (England : City) title: The oath of every free-man of the City of Oxford. date: 1646.0 words: 941 flesch: 73 summary: Oxford (England : City) Oxford (England : City) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by Leonard Lichfield, Oxford : 1646. keywords: a53767; books; city; councell; early; england; english; franchises; free; major; man; oath; oxford; text; wing cache: A53767.xml plain text: A53767.txt item: #44 of 68 id: A54038 author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. title: The great question concerning the lawfulnes or unlawfulnes of swearing under the gospel stated and considered of for the satisfaction of such as desire to scan the thing in the weight of God's spirit and to see the true and clear determination of it in his un-erring light / by Isaac Penington the younger. date: 1661.0 words: 5235 flesch: 61 summary: Is not the Confessing of God by a Christian , of more weight , than the Swearing by Him from a Jew or Heathen ? O Nations and Powers of the Earth , seek Truth , seek Righteousness , and do not set up a Form or Image of things in your own wills ( and according to your own wisdom and inventions ) above the Power of God. By binding the Thing ( promised or affirmed ) with an Oath , the thing is confirmed ; and now there is no more strife in the heart concerning the thing , if relating to God , or between man and man in things relating to them , but the striving nature is bound down by the Oath of God , wherewith the Thing is ratified , and so the Doubt and Uncertainty removed , and the Contest ended . keywords: bond; christ; disciple; eebo; end; english; god; gospel; hath; heart; innocency; law; life; light; lord; man; men; nature; nay; new; oath; power; principle; proper; self; spirit; state; substance; swearing; tcp; text; thing; true; truth; use; useful; weight; world; yea cache: A54038.xml plain text: A54038.txt item: #45 of 68 id: A54117 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Caution humbly offer'd about passing the bill against blasphemy date: 1698.0 words: 2903 flesch: 57 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. then , in it self , is certainly , a Speaking Evilly of God : keywords: authority; bill; blasphemy; books; caution; characters; civil; early; eebo; encoding; english; general; god; good; great; images; irreligious; magistrates; man; men; nature; online; oxford; partnership; party; people; phase; power; self; tcp; tei; terms; text; time; true; wing; works; xml cache: A54117.xml plain text: A54117.txt item: #46 of 68 id: A54142 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Good advice to the Church of England, Roman Catholick and Protestant dissenter, in which it is endeavoured to be made appear that it is their duty, principle & interest to abolish the penal laws and tests date: 1687.0 words: 22221 flesch: 62 summary: One can easily imagin this to be Reformation Language , and then it is not hard to think how low that Church must be fallen , that from so free and excellent a Principle , is come to make , execute and uphold Penal Laws for Religion , against her Conscientious Neighbours ; but it is to be hoped , that like Nebuchadnezzar's Image , whose Feet was a mixture of Iron and Clay , and therefore could not stand for ever ; Persecution will not be able to mix so with the Seed of Men but that Humanity will overcome it , and Mankind one day be delivered from that Iron hard and fierce Nature . I do heartily pray to God that he would enlighten the Eyes of her Leaders , and give them good Hearts too , that Faction may not prevail against Charity , in the name of Religion : And above all , that she would not be proud of her Numbers , or stand off upon that Reflection ; for that alone will quickly lessen them in a Nation loving Freedom as much as this we live in ; And what appears in the Town is an ill Glass to take a prospect of the Country by : There are Parishes that have Fifteen Thousand Souls in them and if two come to Church it is matter of Brag , tho half the rest be sown among the several dissenting Congregations of their Judgment . keywords: answer; argument; aversion; best; better; bishop; blood; body; case; certain; change; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; civil; common; communion; conscience; country; crown; day; disciples; dissenters; doctrine; duty; ease; eebo; end; enemies; england; english; example; excuse; faith; father; favour; fear; force; free; general; god; gods; good; government; great; greater; greatest; hands; hath; head; help; holy; honour; hope; ibid; ill; interest; judgment; king; kingdom; laws; liberty; life; like; little; long; love; man; matters; mean; men; mens; mind; national; nature; opinion; oxford; pag; papists; parliament; parties; party; peace; penal; penal laws; people; persecution; persons; perswade; plain; point; popery; power; practice; present; prince; principles; protestant; publick; queen; question; reason; reasonable; reformation; religion; repeal; right; roman; said; sake; second; security; self; selves; spirit; state; sufficient; sure; tcp; terms; tests; text; things; tho; thought; time; true; truth; turn; use; way; words; work; world; worldly; wrong cache: A54142.xml plain text: A54142.txt item: #47 of 68 id: A54204 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Reasons why the oaths should not be made a part of the test to Protestant dissenters date: 1683.0 words: 2948 flesch: 58 summary: 1. WE do humbly conceive , that because these Oaths were Antiently made upon Occasion of the Conspiracies of Papists against the Government , and are now reviv'd upon the score of the late Discovery of their Horrid Plot ; and that since they only ought at any time to be administred in Case of Just Jealousie or Suspition had of any Person or Persons : We , who are no Papists , but by our Faith and Doctrine Repugnant to all Popery ; And We , who have never shown the least Disallegiance or Vnfaithfulness , but on the Contrary have been patient and peaceable under all that Excess of Severity , that in several parts of this Nation hath been inflicted upon us , ought not to be brought under the same Jealousies with the Papists : It is suspecting an Integrity , that was never Tainted . keywords: books; characters; church; declaration; dissenters; early; eebo; elements; encoding; english; good; government; images; laws; oaths; online; oxford; papists; partnership; peaceable; people; persons; phase; protestant; reason; religion; supremacy; tcp; tei; text; xml cache: A54204.xml plain text: A54204.txt item: #48 of 68 id: A56129 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The arraignment, conviction and condemnation of the Westminsterian-Juncto's engagement with a cautionarie exhortation to all honest English spirits to avoid the danger of perjurie by taking of it. date: 1649.0 words: 5992 flesch: 68 summary: 5. It will lose our Interest , honour and reputation in and withall other Kingdomes or States , who will refuse to owne or treat with us a State , thus forcibly and treasonably erected ; o● else treat with us , as the puniest and meanest State in the World , whose Agents and publique Ministers must give place to those of all Kings , Princes and other States ●hatsoeve● which are ancient●● then it , ●ver by the [v] Law of Nations and resolution of all Heraulds ; which the generosity of the English Nation ( the ancientst and first Christian Kingdome in the Christian World [e] 25 H. 8 c. 22. & all Act● of the Subsi●ies granted by the ●●aity or Clergy in their reignes [f] Exact . keywords: acts; ancient; arbitrary; army; bee; blood; christian; clergy; collection; commons; condemnation; contrary; contributions; covenants; doe; engagement; english; estates; exact; excise; free; garrisons; god; gods; government; great; high; himselfe; honest; honour; house; iacobi; illegall; king; kingdome; late; lawes; legall; liberties; liberty; lives; lords; lost; monarchy; nation; new; oath; oathes; owne; parliament; people; perpetuall; power; psal; publique; quarter; religion; rom; selfe; soules; state; subject; sundry; text; tim; titles; treachery; wee; world; ● ● cache: A56129.xml plain text: A56129.txt item: #49 of 68 id: A59242 author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707. title: Reflexions upon the oathes of supremacy and allegiance by a Catholick gentleman, and obedient son of the church, and loyal subject of His Majesty. date: 1661.0 words: 26758 flesch: 53 summary: Secondly , besides this she gives power to any one that takes the Oath , in taking it to signifie that he accepts it with the said meaning ; for sayes she , If any person that hath conceived any other sence of the Form of the said Oath , shall accept the same Oath with this interpretation , sence or meaning , her Majesty is well pleased to accept every such in that behalfe as her good and Obedient Subject , and shall acquit them of all manner of penalties contained in the said Act against such as shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take the same Oath . It is true , the teaching of such an Arti●le of faith brings very great temporal commodities to those few that have the cruelty to their Country to become the preachers and Apostles of it : great favour and power they gain thereby abroad , and therefore they will take it kindly at the hands of English Catholicks , if for a mere Secular advantage of theirs , they will be content to Sacrifice their own Estates , Honours , Families and lives , as traytors , to the law●s , and withall bring an unavoydable scandal to Catholick Religion , besides . keywords: a59242; acknowledge; act; acts; advantage; allegiance; ambiguous; article; authority; belief; bishop; body; book; case; catholicks; causes; certain; christian; church; civil; clause; clergy; conscience; contrary; councel; court; crown; declaration; decree; deposing; disloyalty; divine; doctrine; dominions; duty; ecclesiastical; eebo; eighth; england; english; estates; excommunication; exercise; expressions; external; faith; fidelity; following; force; formes; forraign; france; general; god; gods; good; government; governour; great; greater; hath; head; henry; ibid; ill; intention; interpretation; james; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; king; kingdom; kingdomes; known; late; lawes; lawful; liberty; like; little; lord; loyalty; majesties; majesty; manner; matters; meaning; means; necessary; negative; new; oath; oathes; obedience; occasion; opinion; orders; parliament; party; pastours; peace; persons; point; pope; position; power; practises; prejudice; present; pretended; princes; principles; profess; promise; protestants; publick; publickly; queen; ready; realm; reason; reflexions; regard; religion; renouncing; right; roman; rome; sacred; safety; said; sayes; sect; sence; sentence; shew; spiritual; spiritual jurisdiction; state; subjects; successours; supream; supremacy; supreme; taking; tcp; temporal; tender; text; things; time; title; true; truth; vertue; viz; words; world; yea; year cache: A59242.xml plain text: A59242.txt item: #50 of 68 id: A61528 author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. title: The case of an oath of abjuration considered and the vote of the honourable House of Commons vindicated in a letter. date: 1693.0 words: 12462 flesch: 57 summary: And the Citizens of London on their part , swore Faithful Service [ took the Oath of Fidelity ] to King Richard and his Heirs , and engaged , that if he died without Issue , they would receive John for their Lord and King. The Use I make of it , is this , to shew you , that John , by this first Treasonable Attempt of causing People to swear Fidelity to him , against the King's Will , and without his Knowledge , and when he was not so much as Presumptive Heir , must make him justly liable both to the King's Anger , and to the Punishment of the Laws of the Land ; but that his second Attempt upon the Crown made him undoubtedly a Traitor , and not to be endur'd either by King or Subject . keywords: abjuration; abjuration oath; allegiance; archbishop; arthur; better; bishops; brother; case; chancellor; children; citizens; commons; competitor; conqueror; conscience; crown; daughter; days; death; design; discover; duke; earl; edgar; edward; eebo; enemies; enemy; england; english; farther; favour; fidelity; france; general; good; government; great; hands; heir; henry; house; john; king; kingdom; late; little; london; long; majesties; malmesbury; man; manner; matters; maud; men; mind; nation; new; normandy; oath; oblig'd; old; ones; opinion; parliament; people; place; power; present; prince; purpose; reason; richard; right; rightful; robert; rufus; saith; second; secure; security; self; set; son; stephen; subjects; succession; sure; tcp; text; thing; tho; throne; time; title; way; william; world; year cache: A61528.xml plain text: A61528.txt item: #51 of 68 id: A61779 author: Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. title: De juramento seven lectures concerning the obligation of promissory oathes / read publicly in the divinity school of Oxford by Robert Sanderson ; translated into English by His Late Majesties speciall command and afterwards revised and approved under His Majesties own hand. date: 1655.0 words: 52457 flesch: 61 summary: But left it be thought my intention to permit too great a licence of oaths , because I have so often said that this or that kinde of oath is not unlawfull , I thought fit maturely to advertise you , that I have said nothing this day , nor shall hereafter , that may give any man reason to believe it lawfull for him to swear at his pleasure , it being well known unto me that an oath is a sacred thing , not without great necessity , and then seldome , and with much reverence to be used . Yet certainly he who seriously considereth how far we have been , since God hath smitten us with a more heavy hand , from bewailing those most grievous sins of oath●s and perjury , nay rather how vastly they are encreased , here through the uncontrouled , and unpunished licentiousnesse of oathes and blasphemies , there through the foul Hypocrisie of perjury hid under the specious pretence of Religion , cannot choose but think upon those words of the Prophet Jeremiah ; Through Oathes the Land mourneth . keywords: able; act; answer; ariseth; assertory; assertory oath; asseveration; augustine; authority; bare; better; binding; bond; briefly; caius; case; causes; certain; children; christ; circumstances; civill; clear; command; common; commutation; concerneth; condition; confirmation; conscience; consent; contempt; contracts; contrary; creature; custome; danger; day; death; debt; definition; difference; discourse; dispensation; divine; doe; doth; doubt; doubtfull; duty; effect; efficient; end; english; equity; equivocation; error; evill; example; expedient; expresse; externall; fact; faith; false; falsehood; far; father; favour; fear; fifth; fit; followeth; force; forms; fourth; free; future; generall; god; gods; good; great; greater; grievous; guilty; hand; hath; having; heart; holy; honest; humane; hurt; hypothesis; impossible; injury; intention; internall; interpretation; invocation; invoked; judgement; justice; kinde; king; land; large; laws; lawyers; leave; lecture; lie; life; like; lord; lyeth; man; manifest; manner; matter; meaning; means; meer; men; mentall; money; mouth; mutuall; nations; naturall; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; neighbour; neverthelesse; new; oath; oath obligeth; oathes; object; obligation; obligatory; obliged; obligeth; occasion; opinion; order; particular; party; party swearing; passe; peculiar; performance; perjury; person; pious; place; point; pope; power; precept; present; prince; profit; promise; promissory oath; proper; publick; punishment; purpose; question; reason; received; relation; religion; religious; repugnant; require; respect; rest; reverence; right; rites; rule; sacred; second; sect; seemeth; self; sense; servant; shew; signes; signification; simulation; sin; small; solemnity; solution; sort; soul; speech; statutes; strength; subject; subsequent oath; superiour; sware; sweareth; swearing; tacite; tcp; testimony; text; theeves; thing; thought; thy; time; titius; true; truth; twofold; understanding; unjust; unlawfull; unlawfull oath; unlawfull thing; unlesse; unto; use; verball; vertue; void; vow; vows; way; wherefore; whereof; whereunto; whilest; wife; wise; witnesse; words; work; worship; ● ● cache: A61779.xml plain text: A61779.txt item: #52 of 68 id: A62568 author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. title: The lawfulness, and obligation of oaths a sermon preach'd at the assises held at Kingston upon Thames, July 21, 1681 / by John Tillotson ... date: 1681.0 words: 9321 flesch: 67 summary: And surely never in any Age was this Sign of the coming of the Son of man more glaring and terrible than in this degenerate Age wherein we live , when almost all sorts of men seem to have broke loose from all obligations to faith and truth . And yet in this also I was the more easily induced to comply with your desire , because of the suitableness of the Argument to the Age in which we live : Wherein as men have run into the wildest extremities in other things , so particularly in the matter of Oaths ; some making conscience of taking any Oath at all , and too many none at all of breaking them . keywords: answer; best; cases; certain; christians; common; confirmation; contrary; conversation; credit; custome; doth; eebo; end; english; evil; faith; god; good; great; greater; hand; hath; heaven; high; house; humane; john; law; lawfulness; lord; man; mankind; manner; matter; men; nature; necessary; necessity; oath; obligation; occasions; ordinary; perjury; plain; practice; prohibition; promise; reason; religion; sacred; saviour; scripture; security; self; sense; sin; society; solemn; strife; swear; swearing; tcp; text; thing; thou; thought; thy; tillotson; true; truth; use; wise; witness; word cache: A62568.xml plain text: A62568.txt item: #53 of 68 id: A62798 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. title: To the respective members of the House of Commons, the humble application of the people, commonly called Quakers date: 1696.0 words: 1082 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: books; characters; commons; early; eebo; english; house; image; online; oxford; partnership; people; phase; quakers; tcp; tei; text; works; xml cache: A62798.xml plain text: A62798.txt item: #54 of 68 id: A65348 author: D. W., Sir. title: Some reflections on the oaths & declaration appointed in an act past in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary in reference to the Roman Catholicks of England / by Sir D.W. Baronet, of the church of Rome. date: 1695.0 words: 6046 flesch: 51 summary: So help me God , &c. The Oath of Supremacy , framed in the Act , 1 Eliz. c. 1. which Oath is now abrogated . Sixty of the Doctors of the Sorbon subscribed to the said Oath , these following Words , We underwritten , Divines and Doctors of the Sacred Faculty of Paris , do judg the Oath , as it is on the other side , ( i. e. the Oath of Allegiance ) may with Safety of Faith and Conscience be taken by English Catholicks , &c. But Pope Paul the Fifth sent a Breve into England , directed to the English Catholicks , wherein , reciting the said Oath at large , he declares , that this Oath contains many things plainly repugnant to Faith and Salvation , and admonisheth and requireth them not to take that Oath . keywords: act; allegiance; authority; cap; catholicks; crown; declaration; ecclesiastical; eebo; eliz; england; english; faith; foreign; god; hath; heirs; henry; jurisdictions; king; kingdom; majesty; oath; parliament; past; person; pope; power; princes; queen; realm; reflections; reign; right; sir; spiritual; subjects; successors; supremacy; tcp; temporal; text; things; time; true; world; year cache: A65348.xml plain text: A65348.txt item: #55 of 68 id: A65844 author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. title: The case of the Quakers concerning oaths defended as evangelical in answer to a book, entituled, The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated by J.S. date: 1674.0 words: 20312 flesch: 63 summary: For both before and under the Law there were private Oaths and Swearing in some Contracts and Covenants between man and man , as well as publick before Judges ; And if the Martyrs Testimony against the Pope's Compulsion reacht only private Oaths , we ask , Where did ever the Pope's Law compel Men to Swear in their private Bargains between man and man ? and why are men put upon Swearing in their Account for their Tyths , more then in their private Contracts about them ? J. S. would seem cordially to concur with William Thorpe's Testimony , as being only against Swearing by the Book , by any Creature , &c. This is written on behalf , and in the Person of the People of God called Quakers , and their Evangelical Testimony , by some who are Lovers of the said People , and the Souls of all Men. keywords: account; act; answ; apostle; argument; august; bishop; book; caesar; calling; case; chap; christ; christians; church; common; condition; confession; conscience; creature; curse; divine; doctrine; doth; earth; eminent; emperor; english; evangelical; evil; express; false; far; fol; form; fortune; general; gentiles; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hath; health; heaven; help; holy; jesus; jews; judge; king; law; lawful; like; lord; lye; man; martyrs; mat; matter; men; nay; need; oath; old; opinion; pag; paul; people; plain; polycarpus; pope; power; private; prohibition; prophets; quakers; reader; reason; said; saith; saying; self; solemn; spirit; swear; swearing; tcp; testimony; text; things; thou; throne; time; true; true god; truth; use; viz; waldenses; way; witness; words; worship; yea cache: A65844.xml plain text: A65844.txt item: #56 of 68 id: A66244 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A practical discourse concerning swearing especially in the two great points of perjury and common-swearing / by William Wake ... date: 1696.0 words: 30971 flesch: 77 summary: So for this , ( which-seems to be more properly Religious ) they have appointed the Publication of it to be made in the * House of God , and at the Time that Men are Assembled for his Service in it . IT was upon the first Solemn Publication , at which I was present , of this Law in that Church , in which it has pleased God to call me to Minister , that I composed the following Discourses ; and embraced that Advantage , which the Publick Authority had so happily put into my hands , to lay open the Hainousness of a Vice , which had not some such Care been taken to Correct ; it would , I fear , have been very difficult for us , by all our other Endeavours , ever to have put a stop to . keywords: 1st; able; account; ancient; appeal; basil; better; blessed; cap; care; case; certain; chap; christian; cometh; commandment; common; communication; concern'd; confirmation; consequence; consider'd; consideration; contrary; conversation; custom; design; discourse; doubt; duty; end; enquiry; evil; expressions; false; farther; general; god; good; gospel; great; guilt; holy; honour; hope; iii; instances; jews; justice; law; lawful; laws; lib; life; like; little; loc; lord; man; mankind; manner; matter; meaning; means; men; nature; nay; necessary; need; neighbour; non; oath; obligation; occasion; offer'd; old; opinion; ordinary; particular; passage; paul; perjury; person; place; point; practice; present; principles; profane; prohibition; promise; publick; purpose; reason; reflections; regard; religion; respect; reverence; sacred; saviour; security; self; selves; sense; shew; sin; subject; sufficient; sure; swearing; tcp; text; thing; tho; thought; thy; time; tit; true; truth; unlawful; use; vain; vid; way; ways; whatsoever; words; world; yea cache: A66244.xml plain text: A66244.txt item: #57 of 68 id: A68730 author: Barclay, John, 1582-1621. title: Certain general reasons, prouing the lawfulnesse of the Oath of allegiance, written by R.S. priest, to his priuat friend. Whereunto is added, the treatise of that learned man, M. William Barclay, concerning the temporall power of the pope. And with these is ioyned the sermon of M. Theophilus Higgons, preached at Pauls Crosse the third of March last, because it containeth something of like argument date: 1611.0 words: 87237 flesch: 60 summary: p●asid . b 〈…〉 iud●● . He discusseth a passage in S. 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writeth; writings; wrong; yea; yeeld; yeeres; yoke; zacharie; ● b; ● e; ● ed; ● g; ● t; ● ● cache: A68730.xml plain text: A68730.txt item: #58 of 68 id: A69826 author: Crook, John, 1617-1699. title: The Cry of the innocent for justice being a relation of the tryal of John Crook, and others, at the general sessions, held in the Old Bayley, London : beginning the 25th day of the 4th month, called June, in the year 1662 : before the lord mayor of the city of London, and recorder of the same, chief justice Forster, and divers other judges and justices of the peace, so called : published for no other end but to prevent mistakes, and to satisfie all moderate enquirers, concerning the dealings and usages that the said J.C. and others met withal, from the beginning of the said tryals to the end. date: 1662.0 words: 20456 flesch: 70 summary: We sit here to do Justice , and are upon our Oaths , and we are to tell you what is Law , and not you us : Therefore sirrah you are too bold . [ they being now at the stake ; ] Therefore you ought to hear me to the full what I can say in my own Defence , according to Law , and that in its season , as it is given me to speak : Therefore I hope the Court will bear with me , if I am bold to assert my Liberty as an English-man and as a Christian : and if I speak loud , it is my Zeal for the Truth , and for the Name of the Lord ; and mine Innocency makes me bold — Judg. keywords: accuser; act; aforesaid; allegiance; anno; answer; authority; bar; baronet; benefit; book; called; case; chief; christ; civitat; clerk; confusion; conscience; contrary; counsel; court; crook; day; defence; desire; divers; england; english; estate; evil; false; fear; fellow; force; general; god; good; great; grey; guilty; hath; hope; imprisonment; indictment; interrupted; john; judg; judges; judgment; jury; justice; king; late; law; laws; liberty; like; london; lord; man; matter; milite; mind; mouths; new; notice; oath; obedience; occasion; old; pacis; parliament; people; persons; popish; power; practice; praed; premunire; prisoners; proceedings; protection; purpose; quakers; question; reade; reason; recorder; recusants; refusal; regis; right; righteous; said; saith; second; self; sentence; sessions; spake; statute; subjects; substance; successors; taking; tcp; tender; text; things; thou; time; title; true; truth; tryal; viz; way; words cache: A69826.xml plain text: A69826.txt item: #59 of 68 id: A69859 author: Divine in the north. title: A discourse, shewing that it is lawfull, and our duty to swear obedience to King William, notwithstanding the oath of allegiance taken to the late King. By a divine in the north date: 1689.0 words: 7236 flesch: 53 summary: Again : Since the Tribute , and Revenues of a Crown are the Stipend of God , ( if I may call it so , ) appropriated by God to the supreme Powers , as his Ministers , it being necessary for the support of their Grandeur , and Carrying on of their Business , and therefore , St. Paul saith , They are God's Ministers attending continually upon this very thing : When then this Tribute is quite taken from one , and given to another , so that it is impossible for him from whom it is taken to appear any longer as the Minister of God , and carry on his Business , God then seems to me to have actually discharged such an one from his Service , and to have pitcht upon the other to be his Minister , to whom the Tribute is paid : And therefore it seems clear to me , that he is to be owned as Supreme , and God's Minister , who actually possesseth the Throne , and the Appurtenances thereof ; and not he who was once King but is now dispossest : As for that nice Distinction of a King de jure , and a King de facto , I look upon it to be a mere Chimaera , and no way practicable . To this I answer : Grant that it cannot legally be forfeited , and that though the Law obliges the King , yet it cannot punish him ; and that the Law hath so fenced about the Persons of Kings , that it is impossible in the sense of the Law , for a King upon any Trespass whatever to forfeit his Crown ; and that there is no Subject can offer any Violence , or attempt any thing against the Prerogative or Person of the King , but at the same time he becomes a Trespasser of the Law , and by the Law is punishable ; grant all this I say , that the Laws of the Land do , as much as they can , secure the Right of Dominion in the Person of a King , and his Successors , so that as far as they can make him , he is King de jure ; yet jure they can never make him so absolute , but that God hath still a Right above him , and Power to depose him ; and whenever he doth it , the Right , and Power , which were by Law deriv'd , or secur'd to that King , must then cease , and be null : And therefore ( in my opinion ) let such a King , and his Abetters pretend to what they will , and lay Claim to the Crown as much as they please , by virtue of this and the other Constitution of Government , yet such Claim is quite out of doors , when there is another King de facto ; and the King de facto is King de jure , and claims under a far greater Right ; for it is Jure divino that Kings reign , but it is only Jure humano that they are hereditary , or elective , that there is this or the other sort of Government . keywords: allegiance; allways; better; books; cause; child; claim; crown; divine; duty; early; eebo; emperour; english; god; good; greatest; hand; hath; instance; jehojadah; jure; king; late; law; lawfull; lord; man; means; men; new; north; oath; opinion; people; possest; power; prince; right; self; set; subject; supremacy; supreme; tcp; text; thing; throne; time; true; usurper; war; way; william; works cache: A69859.xml plain text: A69859.txt item: #60 of 68 id: A70287 author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669. title: A copy of a paper sent to John Otway, Justice of the Peace, concerning swearing date: 1666.0 words: 3941 flesch: 56 summary: First of all , There was a time when there was no Oaths , When Man was made in the Image of God , which consists in Righteousness and true Holiness , Equity , long suffering , Patience , Goodness , Mercy and Truth , wherein man was in a capacity to believe in God , and men to believe one another : this was in the beginning after the Heavens and the Earth was made , and all things that are therein ; Then there were no Oaths , neither needed any , for Truth lived and man in it , and that spoke ; and a certainer Testimony there could not be , nor a greater : and this was before Sin and Unbelief entred . 2. Whosoever comes to witness a restoration again into the same Image by Christ , the second Adam , as all that are born of God and are true Christians indeed do come to , there will be nothing but Truth speaking and ruling in the heart , and in the words : and Oaths ends . keywords: angels; books; characters; christ; christians; covenant; early; eebo; english; false; god; gods; good; gospel; great; heart; image; israel; law; lord; man; moral; oaths; people; state; substance; swearing; tcp; tei; text; thee; things; thou; time; true; truth; unbelief; words cache: A70287.xml plain text: A70287.txt item: #61 of 68 id: A70779 author: Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689. title: A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament. date: 1675.0 words: 47257 flesch: 75 summary: To this conduces not a little , not to Swear , and not to be Angry ; for , in not being Angry , we shall not have an Enemy ; and cast off a mans Oath , and withal thou shalt cast off those things that concern Wrath , and shalt extinguish all Anger : For Wrath and an Oath are like the Wind. For this End hath the Grace of God appeared unto all Men , as speaks the Apostle Paul to Titus , that they should be taught to deny Vngodliness and Wor●dly Lusts , which entering & over-running the World , made way among other Expedients for that of Oaths ; so that to live that Life which needs No Oath , man is both requir'd and impower'd : keywords: account; act; adultery; affirm; age; alwayes; ancient; answer; apostles; augustine; author; authority; bef; belief; believe; better; bishop; body; book; brethren; call'd; cap; cases; cause; certain; chap; children; christ; christians; chrysostom; church; city; clemens; cometh; command; commandment; common; conscience; contrary; conversation; council; creatures; credit; custom; danger; dare; denying; difference; disciples; distrust; doctors; doctrine; dost; doth; doubt; earth; elements; emperor; end; england; english; eusebius; evangelical; evidence; evil; example; faithful; false; famous; far; fathers; fear; forbid; force; form; forswear; forswearing; fox; fraud; friends; gain; general; god; gods; good; gospel; great; greater; greatest; greek; ground; hand; hath; head; health; heart; heathens; heaven; help; holy; hom; honour; hope; idols; integrity; jesus; jewish; jews; john; judge; judgment; kind; kingdom; law; lawful; learned; lest; letters; lib; liberty; life; light; like; little; live; liveth; lord; love; lye; lying; man; manner; martyrs; master; mat; means; men; mind; moses; mouth; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; oath; object; occasion; old; pag; paul; people; perfect; perfection; perfidiousness; perjury; persons; philo; place; plain; polycarpus; power; practice; precept; present; priest; primitive; prince; profession; prohibition; psalm; purpose; reason; religion; religious; respect; righteousness; rise; sacrifice; said; saith; sayes; saying; scripture; second; security; self; selves; sense; servant; set; simple; simplicity; sin; solemn; sort; soul; speaking; speech; spirit; spoaken; superfluous; sure; swear; sweareth; swearing; taking; tcp; tertullian; testimonies; testimony; text; thine; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; thy god; time; true; true god; truth; unlawful; use; vain; virtue; viz; way; william; willing; wilt; wisdom; witness; words; work; world; worship; worthy; yea; years cache: A70779.xml plain text: A70779.txt item: #62 of 68 id: A70864 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1659.0 words: 19014 flesch: 66 summary: So God you help , &c. c. 7 tending only to the Declaration of such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject , not only by Bond of Allegiance , but also by the Commandement of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty , his Heirs and Successors ; which Oath such as are infected with Popish Superstition do oppugn with many false and unsound Arguments , the just defence whereof , his Majesty ( King James ) hath heretofore undertaken & worthily performed , to the great contentment , of all his loving Subjects notwithstanding the gainsayings of all contentious Adversaries . keywords: acts; ages; allegiance; apparent; army; authority; breach; c. 1; c. 2; c. 3; c. c.; cap; car; cause; children; christ; christian; chron; church; churches; city; civil; commons; congregation; conscience; conspiracies; contrary; counsel; covenant; crown; cum; danger; david; day; degree; deum; doctrine; dominions; ecclesiastical; edward; eliz; endeavour; england; english; faith; faithfull; famine; fealty; fear; fidem; force; gibeonites; god; gods; good; government; gratian; great; grotius; hands; hath; hearts; heirs; help; henry; hereditary; highest; hist; homage; honour; house; ingagements; instit; ireland; isay; israel; israelites; jac; jer; josh; judgements; judges; justice; king; kingdoms; late; lawfull; laws; league; legal; liberties; life; like; live; london; long; lord; maiors; majesties; majesty; making; man; manner; mat; members; mens; military; ministers; nation; new; nobles; non; oath; oathes; officers; old; ought; parliament; peace; people; perjurious; perjury; persons; pope; posterities; posterity; power; precedent; presence; present; princes; promise; protector; protestations; prynne; psal; publick; publique; quam; qui; quia; quod; realm; reason; religion; right; royal; sacred; safety; said; saints; sam; saul; scotland; seed; self; selves; sins; solemn; souldiers; soveraign; state; statutes; subjects; succession; successors; sundry; terms; text; things; thou; thy; time; tit; true; truth; violations; vow; wars; william; words; years cache: A70864.xml plain text: A70864.txt item: #63 of 68 id: A75812 author: Birchley, William, 1613-1669. title: The Christian moderator. Third part. Or, The oath of abjuration arraign'd by the common law and common sence, ancient and modern Acts of Parl. declarations of the Army, law of God and consent of reformed divines. And humbly submitted to receive judgment from this honorable representative. date: 1653.0 words: 13240 flesch: 59 summary: With these agree many other Authorities , all unanimously subscribing to this conclusion , as an undeniable Maxime of Law , that , None can be lawfully examined upon Oath , concerning any thing that sounds to his own prejudice . Upon this ground Sir Thomas Moore ( a person compleatly learned in the Lawes of this Land , and universally famous for courage and resolution , according to his principles ) refused the then new Oath concerning the Kings Supreamacy and Divorce , alleadging for his defence at the Bar , that he never spake or acted any thing against that Statute , and upon this Plea he relyed , as an evident justification in Law , which never ( said he ) was strained so far as to reach our thoughts ; and for his inward judgement , he freely profest that Oath to be against it , offering before the Judges to sweare , that the unsatisfaction of his Conscience therein was the onely cause of his refusall to comply with their Commands . keywords: abjuration; account; accuse; actions; acts; ancient; answer; army; arraign'd; articles; authority; cause; christian; church; commands; common; common law; confesse; conscience; consideration; contrary; course; court; covenant; dangerous; declarations; declare; divines; doctrines; doth; eliz; english; estates; faith; fit; fol; force; free; fundamentall; generall; god; goods; government; great; hath; heart; hen; himselfe; judgement; justice; land; law; lawes; liberty; like; little; long; lord; man; matters; moderator; modern; nation; nature; nay; new; oath; officio; onely; opinions; ordinance; outward; owne; page; papists; parliament; party; peace; penalties; penalty; people; person; petition; point; power; principles; private; proceedings; proces; professe; publique; punishment; reason; reformation; religion; religious; right; said; secret; selves; sence; sequestration; spirit; statute; subject; temporall; tender; text; thing; thoughts; times; true; truth; tyranny; violence; way; wealth; witnesses; words; world cache: A75812.xml plain text: A75812.txt item: #64 of 68 id: A83341 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: The Parliament doth declare, that the recognition of the government by the members of this Parliament in the words following; viz. I do hereby freely promise and engage, to be true and faithfull to the Lord Protector, and the Common-wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, ... date: 1654.0 words: 695 flesch: 70 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83341 of text R212014 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[7]). Title from first lines of text. keywords: doth; england; government; lord; parliament; protector; recognition; text; viz; wales; words cache: A83341.xml plain text: A83341.txt item: #65 of 68 id: A86669 author: Fox, George, d. 1661. title: Something against swearing and concerning the oath of allegiance and supremacy date: 1660.0 words: 1326 flesch: 65 summary: The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A86669) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163861) keywords: a86669; allegiance; church; end; english; god; government; head; king; oath; power; richard; supremacy; text; things; thomason; yea cache: A86669.xml plain text: A86669.txt item: #66 of 68 id: A91204 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Pryn's last and finall declaration to the Commons of England, concerning the King, Parliament, and Army. And his remonstrance and proposals to the kingdome, shewing, that it is high treason, to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of our Soveraign Lord King Charles. With the oath of allegiance to His Majesty, taken by the Parliament men, before their admission into the House as members. / By William Pryn, of Lincolns-Inne, Esq. date: None words: 2290 flesch: 61 summary: eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. Secondly , That in the Oath of Allegiance whlch you have all taken , immediatly before your admission into the house as Members ; You do truly and sincerely acknowledge , professe , testifie and declare in your consciences , before God & the World , That our Soveraign Lord King Charles , is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme , and of all other his Maj. Dominions and Countries . keywords: -early; army; charles; commons; death; declaration; deposition; england; english; finall; house; king; law; life; lord; majesty; members; new; parliament; person; proposals; pryn; remonstrance; soveraign; text; thomason; treason; william cache: A91204.xml plain text: A91204.txt item: #67 of 68 id: A93516 author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. title: Some reasons humbly offered to the members of the House of Commons, why the bill that is before them, for making people called Quakers solemn affirmations in the presence of God, to be as valid and effectual in all courts and legal proceedings as swearing, they being subject to the pains of perjury, in case any of them affirms falsly. date: 1695.0 words: 1500 flesch: 61 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: bill; books; case; characters; commons; early; eebo; encoding; english; house; image; online; oxford; pains; partnership; perjury; phase; solemn; subject; tcp; tei; text; work; xml cache: A93516.xml plain text: A93516.txt item: #68 of 68 id: A94740 author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676. title: A supplement to the Serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy; published October 1660. In, first, some consideration of the oath of allegiance. Secondly, vindicating of the consideration of the oaths of the Kings supremacy and allegiance, from the exceptions of Richard Hubberthorn, Samuel Fisher, Samuel Hodgkin, and some others against them, in the points of swearing in some case, and the matters of those oaths. By John Tombes B.D. date: 1661.0 words: 21059 flesch: 60 summary: But as circumcision , incense , burnt offerings and sacrifices of the law , is ended in Christ ; so is the oath which was among the Jews , in him ended also to the believers , and by him forbidden : for as it was said in old time thou shalt swear , and shalt perform thy oath to the Lord ; but Christ in the 5. of Mat. making mention of the Jews oath which God gave once direction for , yet saith , Swear not at all . 2. He supposeth that swearing allowed by God in the Old Testament , which Christ corrects , was not only frivolous and vain oaths , but the true oaths which the Jews were commanded , and Christ was to end , who is Gods oath . keywords: allegiance; answer; apostles; assertory; authority; book; caesar; calling; case; causes; charge; christ; christians; church; civil; command; conscience; consideration; contrary; cor; death; doctrine; dominions; doth; ecclesiastical; end; false; fisher; force; god; gods; good; government; hath; help; hodgkin; holy; hubberthorn; idolaters; james; jesus; jews; john; judge; king; law; lawful; lawfulness; laws; lord; magistrates; majesties; majesty; man; mat; matters; men; nay; necessary; new; oath; obedience; old; outward; paul; penalties; people; persons; petitioners; pope; power; princes; promissory; proof; reason; religion; reply; richard; saints; saith; samuel; scripture; self; speech; spirit; spiritual; strife; subjects; supremacy; swearing; tcp; temporal; testament; text; thee; things; thou; time; tombes; true; truth; use; ver; witness; words; worship; worshippers; yea cache: A94740.xml plain text: A94740.txt