facred maidly;withoutany feare or reuerence.ItinJhcirhun. ting,their dogges content not their mindes~ they faH acur:. fing and fwearing, as it were to tafe their difle1npered llo.. mack,by fhamelcffe and blafphemous teari~g; and renting . thename ofGod. IfGod crofle them in ,(heir dice, which -arc deare to.them·;they·will crofie -~1m in hisglorie, which is deardt t~ him ~ ; ifhemake the dice r~nne againtt them, they will bc.auenged,!rhtir tongues lbaltrtmne as fall againfl him. ·Here is an heaf.r po{fdfed \\iith 'the djueJlJ orrather changed into adiud.l~,that can find noother remedy, when it ii crof.;. f'ed; &moued, but to dillionor God.As,who would fay;it is an eafeandpfeafure to their mind; when they can bring any foule -difgrace jv~t9· his ~ame.fomuch ·as in them lktbJ. Hell gapes;withopen mouth for, f~ch hellifi1 perfons: and amoA horrible and fe~uefull ~a:mnaiion, remaines for fucb horrible and fearefull finners. - ~ But,this may be anvnfp~akeable comfort to pooreChri– l\ians$lfGod forbeare fuch furious perfons,thatblafpheme ·his name,and; treadhi~ glory ·v·n_~er their feete: how much morewill·he be~re:with thetn thatlouehim_, reoerence him, at1d defire·toob,eyhim? ifGod be fo·patient,that for a while 1 , hewill,as'it werefuffermen toBy in his face; t~en thofc that f i~'o1:~~ .. hum~ly caflthemfdues at his feete lhall finde mer(;ie. But,_ t~ fw~a· let wtcked·fwearerstake heed, how theyprefumeoften thus nng. to·,crotfe G·od in their anger, in the thit?-g that hce moA ac– counts of: for ·~e will not1ong fie downe by it, he will not ftill beate it,but hewil arife in his anger,andplague them in their foule,and:in that,that is neerefl vnto them .. Ifthey fee . their tongus ag~inll heauch, heauen will fend downe~hun- !~tth;2'· der-bou1ts ofvengeance againfl them: and ifonedalhoften againA: ChriH,andwili take no warning~at lengthChriAwill · ·fillvponhim,and:gr-ind him topouder. And thusmuch for idleand foolith fwearing,as alfo bitter and outragious blaf· phcming. . , swearing Secondly,Godsnar:ne is takea invaine,by f\~Vearing wicwicke~1111·e 'kedly, whet1 men bindthemfelues by an oath todoe cu_ill. · .·tolioCl • As Dauidiri a paffionatcheate,fwa·retokill Nabal. Indeede N11~o~/:had defcrucddeathll and ~od did meet withhim af– ter:
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