upon the Epiflluf JAM 1 s. VIRs.u. courfes extant ion all chefe matters-; See the writers on the Com– mandements; Grotiut on Mat.5 ·34· &c. and Mat. 23· 2o, zr, 22. Perk.jns on Mat. 5. Hammonds pract Cat. and Spanheim Dub. Evang.parq.Dub. I 24,&fequentibus.Brochman hift. Theol.A[f. de lege Dei cap.8. queft.r.l·3• Jacobus adportum in refut. in(fitut. Oftorodii adcap.z5. &c. But let your yea be yea, ~tnd JOur n:J] , nay) fome fuppofe that this is the fame with what our Saviourfpeaketh, Mat. 5•37• which implyeth that a Chrifiian in his ordinary fpeech Chould content himfelf wirh fimple affirmations or ·negations, that he may abfiain frcm all appearance ofan oa~b; but mark , our Apofile doth not fay, let your !Jeech be yelii,Jea, nay,nay,but letyouryea,6eJell, and your n~ty, be nay; yeaand nay wt:re the urual forms and words ufe:d in fiipulations; now faith the Apofile, let your yea be always yeA, and your nay always n~y; that is, ~tyour affirmations and ne– gations be plain, and fure-grounded on ameer truth ; as Paut faith his preaching of the Gofpel was notyea ilnd nay, butye>~ anJyea., z Cor.1. 1 '8. (o here, let your yea be yea ; t~e firft yef4 referreth to the promife, the fecond to t~e performance; let there beyea in the– promife,andyea in the performance; and herein the.,Apofile feemeth to fl:rike at the root; Faljbood being the caufe of oaths : and we may obferve, That an e:J~:cellent WllJ to prevent (wearing ' u to ufo Obferv~tt , a conflant trHth in our jpeeches ; then we need not interpofe an ' ·oath; the credit ofour communication will be enough ; oaths give fufpitib'n ofmens f::tlfenefs and lighmefs; if men were ferious and fincere in their difcolirfes, their Word would be equivalent to an ()ath, and their very affirmingwould be [wearing; whereas oth~rs in a doubcrun cafe are hardly credited, though they f wear never fo deeply, becaufe theyfw~ar fo commonly; for having profiituted the highefi and mofl: folemn wayofa!fm anee to every trifle ~ th-ty h:ave nothing lefc wherewith to efiabli!h acontrov~rced tru.th. · . Left re f-a ll into.condemnation; many read 1vet p.~ ~S' ~IGet· .-Jv 'lr'tlfn1e leii.Jl ye fall into hypocri(ie, ~hat is, be fourid lyars; but it feemeth by m0fi TranOations , the Syriack_, the Arabick_, t.be Latin, that the Originall was read as we read it, ~ xellflv 'iT~~ ~r•n~,fall into judgment; it is an allufion to that- commination which is in theLaw that forbiddeth fwearing. The' Lord wilt not hold. himguiltleff~ tha~ ta~th hu name in vain, where not only per– jury, but rafu oaths a~e forbidden; for that word which we tran.. - · - ftate
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