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id: A32049
author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
date: 1644
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mime: application/xml
words: 1223
sentence: 49
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A32049.xml
txt: txt/A32049.txt
title:
  By the King. A proclamation for the further restraint of prophane swearing and cursing, and the better observing of prayer and preaching in His Majesties armies, and the City of Oxford, and in all other parts of the kingdome.

summary:
  WHEREAS , by Our Proclamation dated the 13th day of Iune last past , We did strictly Charge and Command all the respective Officers of Our Army , to cause all Our Military Orders against Blasphemy , Oathes and other Scandalous Actions against the Honour and Service of God , to be duly and severely put in execution ; which Our Command , if it had been well observed , and the Lawes of Our Realm touching those offences duly executed , ( as in duty to God and Us they ought to have been ) there had not been that Liberty taken by those of Our Army , and other persons in the Kingdome , of dishonouring the Sacred Majesty of God , by horrible Oathes and Execrations to the high provocation of God's wrath against themselves and this whole Nation ; We therefore out of Our tender care of the honour of God ( to whose glory we shall ever devote Our Crown ) and in token of Our hatred and detestation of this monstrous impiety , do by this Our Proclamation strictly Charge all Commanders and Officers of Our Armies , and of all Our Garrison Townes , to see that all Our Military Orders for the repressing of Prophane Swearing and Cursing by Souldiers , be duly and severely executed for the time to come , and Exemplary punishment done upon offenders therein , to the terror of others , Which that they may know is by Us expected at their hands , We do hereby require all Commanders and Officers in Our Armies , and Garrison Townes and all who do or shall attend Us in Our Court , to be vertuous examples in their own persons to all Souldiers and others , by abstaining from all such prophanations , as they desire the blessing of God upon Us , upon themselves , and the whole Land ; which if they shall neglect to perform , We do hereby Declares , That all such persons in Our Court , Armies , or Garrison Towns as shall appear to Us to be notorious offenders in this kind , We will in some publique way set a Character of disgrace upon them , that they may appear to the whole world to be offensive both to God and Us . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32049 of text R213850 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2616).


id: A37576
author: England and Wales.
title: An act for the better preventing and suppressing of prophane swearing and cursing
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1849
sentence: 41
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A37576.xml
txt: txt/A37576.txt
summary:
  Every person and persons who writeth or stileth himself , or is usually written or stiled Duke , Marquis , Earl , Viscount , Baron or Lord , the sum of Thirty shillings ; Every person and persons who writeth or stileth himself , or is usually written or stiled Baronet or Knight , the sum of Twenty shillings ; Every person and person who writeth or stileth himself , or is usually written or stiled Esquire , the sum of Ten shillings ; Every person and persons who writeth or stileth himself , or is usually written or stiled Gentleman , the sum of Six shillings and eight pence ; And all other person and persons whatsoever , under the Degrees before expressed , shall forfeit and pay to the uses aforesaid , the sum of Three shillings and four pence : And that every such Offender and Offenders shall forfeit and pay for the second Offence , in maner and form following ; viz. FOr the better preventing and suppressing of the detestable Sins of prophane Swearing and Cursing , Be it Enacted by this present Parliament , and the Authority thereof , That if any person or persons shall hereafter offend by prophane Swearing or Cursing , in the presence or hearing of any Justice of the Peace of the county , or chief Officer , or Justice of Peace of the city or Town Corporate where the same shall be committed , or shall be thereof convicted by Confession of the party , or by the Oath of one Witness or more , before any such Justice of Peace of the county , or chief Officer or Justice of Peace of such city or Town Corporate where such Offence is or shall be committed ( for which end every Justice of Peace , and every such Head-Officer as aforesaid , have power hereby within their several Precincts to administer an Oath , and are enjoyned to keep a Record of such conviction , and to make certificates quarterly of the Name of every person so convicted , and the degree of such his or her Offence , to the Clerk of the Peace for the county where such conviction shall be , to be by him Recorded ) That then every such Offender shall for every time so offending , forfeit and pay to the use of the Poor of that Parish where the same is or shall be committed , for the first Offence , according to the Degree and Quality of such person and persons so offending , in maner and form following ; viz.


id: A13432
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1630
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2222
sentence: 93
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A13432.xml
txt: txt/A13432.txt
title:
  Christian admonitions against the tvvo fearefull sinnes of cursing and swearing most fit to be set vp in euery house, that the grieuousnesse of those sinnes may be both remembred, and auoyded, whereby the hatred of them may possesse the heart of euery Christian / [by] Iohn Taylor.

summary:
  FIrst , ( if thou wilt liue in a holy feare and reuerence of the Name of God ) thou must consider what thou art , and learne to know thy selfe ; for hee that truely knoweth himselfe , is a man of very happy acquaintance , for by this thou shalt know thy selfe to be Earth , Gen. 2. 7. conceiu'd in sinne , Psalme 51. 5. Borne to paine , Iob , 5. 7. Hauing thus by the Touch-stone of Gods Word tryed , and examined thy miserable estate and condition , and therewithall knowing thy selfe , then on the other side , consider ( as neere as thy frailty will permit ) the power of God in creating thee , his mercy in Redeeming thee , his loue , in preseruing thee , his bounty , in keeping thee , his promise to glorifie thee in heauen , if thou honour him on earth , and his Iudgements to condemne thee , if thou blaspheme and dishonour him .


id: A27200
author: R. B.
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2489
sentence: 97
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A27200.xml
txt: txt/A27200.txt
title:
  A caveat for sinners, or, a warning for swearers, blasphemers, and adulterers. Shewing, the vengeance of the almighty, inflicted upon several, whose habital custom to the afore-mentioned and horrid sins, rendred them the objects of God's vvrath; as you may hear by the sequel. Very necessary to be placed up in the houses of every good Christian, that they may avoid the like crimes. Written by that reverend divine, Mr. R.B.

summary:
  Yet this beloved Sin too much is us'd , Man's Soul is wrong'd , and God himself abus'd ; While the poor Sinner little thinks upon The pains that follow , if they will run on Till Judgements overtake , and then too late Perhaps they may repent their wretched State ; And when they 'r overwhelm'd with fear and pain , Of time mispent , perhaps they may complain : Their Consciences in their faces then will flye , Horrour surprize them when they come to dye ; Their Charming Kisses turn to deadly frights , And change to fearful pains , their chief Delights : eng God -- Wrath -- Early works to 1800.


id: A47209
author: Kelsall, John.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4065
sentence: 152
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A47209.xml
txt: txt/A47209.txt
title:
  A testimony against gaming, musick, dancing, singing, swearing and peoples calling upon God to damn them. As also against drinking to excess, whoring, lying, and cheating. Commended to the consciences of all people in the sight of God, but more especially to those, who keep publick houses.

summary:
  Also in the Late Proclamation by the King and Queen , against ●●c●●● , Debauched and Prophane Persons , Given at White-Hall the 21 st of January , 1691 / 2. BEcause that Impiety and Vice do still abound in this Kingdom , the King and Queen Declare ( as bound in Duty to God , and Care for the People . ) Some that delight in Musick may object , That David and others of the People of God , did play upon Instruments of Musick .


id: A46240
author: Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4683
sentence: 253
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A46240.xml
txt: txt/A46240.txt
title:
  A cure for the tongue-evill, or, A receipt against vain oaths being a plain and profitable poem, shewing the hainousness of common swearing, with reasons against it, and remedies for it / by T.I., an hearty well-wisher to his king, church, and country.

summary:
  Oh that they saw Gods wrath in dreadfull might , Threatning revenge to ev'ry banning wight ; For then they would not , could not , dare not swear , But they would speak of God in holy fear ; Thus was Saint Austin cured , who before He feared God , did swear as many more ; He read Gods word and feared , and this fear Would not permit him any more to swear .


id: A36289
author: Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7101
sentence: 250
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A36289.xml
txt: txt/A36289.txt
title:
  A pick-tooth for swearers, or, A looking glass for atheists and prophane persons wherein the greatness of the party offended, the solemn giving of the law, together with the strickness and purity thereof, the unquestionable verity of the Holy Scriptures, and what fearfull sentence the wiked may expect in the great day are briefly touched.

summary:
  These Notes I have subjoined for Answering an● Objection that may Ocurr , and explain any thing , that may not be so easily understood by those of weakest Capacities ; not that the same Matter , contained in the Notes may not he expressed in Rhime , as well as the rest , but to degress in explaining every thing that may seem difficult would much marr the Grace and Harmony of the Poem , This method is used by the best English Poets , ( I mean those that write in English ) that I have seen , and I judge it very convenient ; 'T is impossible to please every one , or to solve all objections and doubts that may be made about or against this , if I get the Approbation of the sober and discreet 't is enough : However I am resolved to take my hazard fo●●ee , whatever sensure I meet with . 2 Perhaps some may carp at the word Stabl● , because we are informed by Holy write , The Heavens shall Depart as a Scrol when it is Rolled together .


id: A63106
author: Elderly man, a Master of Arts, of above forty years standing.
date: 1682
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7923
sentence: 209
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A63106.xml
txt: txt/A63106.txt
title:
  A treatise proving by what our Saviour saith concerning swearing, St. Matth. 5. 34 first, that swearing is restrained and explained by him in point of religion and piety, and secondly, that it is not taken away quite in the concerns of civil right and policy : published for confinement unto those that are loose in this matter, and for liberty of conscience unto such as bind themselves where they have no need : the one's excess being a misbehaviour against religion, and the other defect, an errour against governemtn and policy / by an elderly man, a Master of Arts, of above forty years standing ...

summary:
  To avoid this therefore , forbearing the name of God , they used the names of other things , infinitely below God , and yet of no small esteem with them , as by Heaven , by the Earth , Jerusalem , the Temple , the Altar , &c. thinking by this shift , if not to swear without sinning , yet to extenuate the sin of Swearing . That in swearing vain and customary Oaths , they did it not by God , but by Heaven , by the Earth , by Jerusalem , &c.


id: A61835
author: Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.
date: 1644
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9415
sentence: 278
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A61835.xml
txt: txt/A61835.txt
title:
  A sermon concerning svvearing preached before the King's Maiesty in Christ-Church Oxon, May the 12, 1644 / by W. Strode ...

summary:
  Wherefore David without scruple blesseth God and Abigail , for staying him in the prosecution of a rash and bloody Oath . First , in cases of necessity an Oath is tolerable ; for what is an Oath , but the calling of God to witnesse , for decision of doubtfull matters which otherwise cannot be made evident ; so Philo defines it , to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Testimony of God in a matter doubtfull .


id: A28913
author: Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10813
sentence: 313
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A28913.xml
txt: txt/A28913.txt
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 ...

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 ?


id: A39525
author: Fisher, John, fl. 1692.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12277
sentence: 394
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A39525.xml
txt: txt/A39525.txt
title:
  A position and testimony against all swearing under the gospel In which may be seen, I. That Christ hath forbidden all sorts of oaths. II. What Christ hath substituted instead of an oath. III. Reasons for that prohibition and substitution. With an answer to all the material objections that are, or may be, alledged from the scriptures.

summary:
  In Deut. 6. 13. and in 10. 20. God commanded to Swear by his Name ; therefore Christ did not forbid such Oaths as was by the Name of God ; for the Father and the Son are one , and Immutable ( or unchangeable ) in their Nature and Will ; and therefore how could the Son forbid that which the Father had commanded ? Answer , That Command of God was to them that were under the Law , to prevent them from swearing by Idols ; and not to such that are under the Gospel , to whom Christ spoke :


id: A67757
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1652
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11031
sentence: 455
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A67757.xml
txt: txt/A67757.txt
title:
  A hopefull way to cure that horrid sinne of swearing, or, An help to save swearers if willing to be saved being an offer or message from him whom they so daringly and audaciously provoke : also a curb against cursing.

summary:
  As Satan ( that he may make smooth their way to perdition ) will perswade the most impudent and insolent sinners , Drunk●rds , Ad●lterers , Blasphemers , Sabbath-breakers , Bloodthirsty Murtherers , Persecuters of the Godly , and contemners of Religion , that they may take liberty to continue their sensuall lusts , by a testimony of Scripture , and apply Christs passion as a warrant for their licentiousnesse ; his death as a licence to sin , his crosse as a Letters patent to do m●schi●f . Neither object that ye are so accustomed to swearing that you cannot leave it , for this de●ence is worse then the offence ; as take an instance , Shall a Thief or Murtherer at the Bar alledge for his defence , that it hath been his use and custom of a long time to rob and kill , and therefore he must continue it , or if he do , will not the Judge so much the rather send him to the Gallows ?


id: A46774
author: B. J.
title: Two letters written to a gentleman of note guilty of common swearing. By B.J.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15324
sentence: 383
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A46774.xml
txt: txt/A46774.txt
summary:
  But in good truth , Sir , I think it is to little purpose , what you do call your self , as long as you abide under this Heinous Guilt ; for at the bottom they can be of no Religion at all , but are the foulest Scandal to the Christian Name , and a heavy Plague to the World , who Name God in their Oaths , oftner than in their Prayers ; and have little to do with Him , but only thus to provoke him . When of a Truth , God is no respecter of Persons ; but in every Nation he Accepts the Man ( though of the lowest Rank ) that Fears Him and Works Righteousness ; and in no place will he accept the Gentleman , or other , that nothing but Despises him , and works Wickedness . From Noble Organs , Sir , we expect Harmonious Sounds : and Vesse●s of Honour sure should not be prostituted to the basest uses .


id: A67779
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1664
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21238
sentence: 809
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A67779.xml
txt: txt/A67779.txt
title:
  A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.

summary:
  [ Death ] without once waking to bethink themselves whither they are a going [ to Heaven or Hell. ] Or Ignorant and Formal Hypocrites : who do as they see others do , without either conscience of sin , or guidance of reason : Who do what is morally good , more for fear of the Law , then for love of the Gospel : Who fear the Magistrate more then they fear God or the Devil ; regard more the blasts of mens breath , then the fire of Gods wrath ; will tremble more at the thought of a Bailiff , or a Prison , then of Satan , or Hell , and everlasting perdition : Who will say , they love God and Christ , yet hate all that any way resemble him ; are slint unto God , wax to Satan ; have their ears alwayes open to the Tempter , shut to their Maker and Redeemer ; will chuse rather to disobey God , then displease great Ones ; fear more the Worlds scorns , then His anger ; and rather than abridge themselves of their pleasure , will incur the displeasure of God : Who will do what God forbids , yet confidently hope to escape what He threatens : Who will do the Devils works onely , and yet look for Christs wages ; expect that Heaven will meet them at their last hour , when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten Road towards Hell : Who expect to have Christ their Redeemer and Advocate , vvhen their Consciences tell them , that they seldom remember him , but to blaspheme him ; and more often name him in their oaths and curses , than in their prayers : vvho vvill persecute honest and Orthodox Christians ; and say , they mean base and dissembling hypocrites : Who think they do God good service in killing his servant● , Joh. 16.2 . Surely , If I d●d swear , it was but by Faith and Troth , by our Lady , the Mass , the Light , this Bread , by the Cross of this Silver , or the like ; which is no great matter I hope , so long as I swore not by God , nor by my Saviour .


id: A28981
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23036
sentence: 743
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A28981.xml
txt: txt/A28981.txt
title:
  A free discourse against customary swearing ; and, A dissuasive from cursing by Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams.

summary:
  Sin , because natural to us , is so readily learnt by us , that as in shooting , by practising to hit Wrens and silly Sparrows , we learn the art of killing Feldifares , Thrushes , and the other sort of Birds we never aimed at ; so by committing some small sin , we learn , tho insensibly ( and perhaps undesignedly ) to commit other and grosser kinds of sins . So in Hosea , Swearing has the Van of the most crying and provoking Sins , in that same dismal passage ; By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood : Therefore shall the land mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish , with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven ; yea , the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away .


id: A87056
author: Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30737
sentence: 844
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A87056.xml
txt: txt/A87056.txt
title:
  Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.

summary:
  1. That Gods judgments are not not like arrows shot into the Aire at randome , he does not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , God hath blessed ends , either to reclaim the party smitten , i● judgements short of death seize on them , or to be ● Pillar of salt to others , that they may hear , fear , and do n● more so : those Jews that exemplarily fell in the wildernesse ; they are said 1 Cor. 10.6 . to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , types to future generations ; they are engraven characters of divine vengeance , that we should read their punishment , and avoid their sin . Magistrates are not to beare the Sword in vain ; if you do not quarrel with sin , God will with you ; you are , or should ●e , the Banks of the Common-wealth , to keep us from a Land-flood , and Torrent of confusion ; you are the Hed●es to prophanesse : The life of the Law is executions ; It s a principle in Moral Policy , That not to execute the Lawes , is worse than to break them , Acts and Ordinances will not beat down prophanesse , unlesse the first be throughly acted , and the last set on fire by authority : many take encouragement by the slack execution of Justice , which otherwise might with care prove a hinderance , not onely from sin , but punishment , nay , it may be , from Eternal flames .


id: A39572
author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35411
sentence: 697
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A39572.xml
txt: txt/A39572.txt
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 ...

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 .


