'' Ofthc LAWFULNESS& (that is, fieale by [wearing) which fhall conjitme both thegoods and the 11ery stone, timber and all;of tbehouft it felfe, Zac.5+ ' 2. The other they call Juranwita Tribunalium, much i:nore fearefull and heynous than the former : when a man (or rather as Saint Augujline calleth niin, deteflanda bellua, no man, but adetestable beafl) fhall fo farre prefiJme, as in t~e Judgement ~t felfe, which is G 0 Ifs (lGro.J9.8.) before the Ma~1strates, which are G o ~ s (Pfalme 8z. 6.) to pro. p~anethe oat/, of Goo,Ecclef8.t. Even,as it were,to comeintoG 0 o's c;>Wn place,and there to offer Him villanie to his face. Acrime fo grievous ns no Nation, were it ~ever fo barbarous, but have thought itfeverdyr~ be puiufhed: fomeWithlojJe oftongue ;Some,offingers; Soine,ofeam. nnd fome, of life. it felfe: And how_foever they efcapeman, theProphe~ faith, the very 'Bor;ke of theLazv,which they have touched in tdlifying an untruth, ft?all ha1Je ThingsgilJen it, and {hall purji1e them, and cntthemoff 01 t thu fide, and on t/Jatfide, till they and their name be rotted {ro1il t/;e eartl1. It is a fearejull thing to fall into Go o's hands on this wife : and of no one finne, more dreadfull examples: For it i5indeed, facere 'Deum mendacii confortem. W1ee hold it worfe in Divinitie, to lay upon Go o, that evill which wee call malum culp.e, than the other which Wetermemulumpren£ 1 which hath beene inflicted on many an innocent good man. Confe. CJUent!y, a leffe evill, to cmci{ie Chrifl by any bodily paine, thanto draw Him into the focietie offtnne, which every perjured perfon doth; as much as in him lieth. Yea, '\ve fay thattheName of GoD beingfearefull to the Devills themfelves, and bringing them to tremble, that that Partiethat treadeth that mofi glorious and fearefull Name, under his feet, is in worfe efiare, not only than the wickedell: ofall men, theMt1rderersof(hrijl, bm even than the 'De11ill himfelfe. And all this,that we conceive aright of In <11eritate. ~ In Judicio. For, thus farre the IJ?harifees themfelvescome; to thinke Jnludgmunt pe1jurie condemned. But, our righteou{ae!Je is to exceed theirs, Mat.5.20. and therefore we mult feeke yet farther. This Claufe (wee fay) fiandeth againfta double vanitie, ras weJIin matter, if for a vaine,light,trilling matterwe fweare; 2 as inmanner alf~, ifwith a vaine,light,unadvifed mind or affection. For,both_thema~ter IS tobe weightie,grave,and judiciall; andwe are with due advJCeandJudg·, ment to come to the action.' .. Againfi which Iudiciall (wearing, we complaine'of twoevillkinds: r. The one Juramenta Platearum, fuch as going through the flreets, a man fi1all every day heare (yea, even out of themouthes of chil?ren;) light, undi(creet, frivolous oathes. :J. The other IuramentaPop~narum, much worfe yet than they. When men inTabling-hottjes, .at thelfgame b!afpheme the N 11 me of q ()I!. m<?fi griev~?DY. ~otcontent to fweb;
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