154 A Commentary upon the aoflel Cha 13,5 ly. ruffianly oaths and abhorred blafphemies are darted up with suet qui attlus hellifla Mouths, againft God, and ,our Saviour, whom they can tinivae /utd in (wear all over, and feldome name, but in anoath ? 1 ow can ctrl¡tt/a)kui- thefepray, Hallowed be that Name, that they fo difhallow? re denterkwa, y a Y gaan ills olio Some cannot utter a fentence without an oath, yea, a fulfill' tna',ut, one, an oath of found, it enraged efpeciaily ; O the tragedies, the bluf}ers,:'the terrible thunder - cracks ot fierce and furious language, interlaced wish oaths,, enough to make the very Hones crack un- der their 1. Yea to fuch an height and habitual' praltice: hereof are fóme grown, that they (wear and foame out a great deal of -filth, and perceiveit not. Had thefe men loch diftemper ofbody, -as that their excrements came from them, when they knew not of ir, it would trouble them. So it would, I dare lay, did they be. lieve the holy Scriptures, threatning lo many woes to them, yea, telling themof a large roll , ten yards long, and five yards broad, full of curies against the (wearer, } ea, relting upon his houle, 7_cch.5 2,7' where he thinkes himfelf mo[ fecure; Brimffone to fcaitered xp- job i$.r s on Abe hotrfe_e ftl e 'A'icked, faith lob, as ready to take lire, if God butlighten upon it. They walk, as it were, upon a mine ofgun- powder : and it may he jut} in God they Ihouid be blown up,whrn their hearts are full ofhell, and their momhs even bigwith helhih blafphemies. Surely their damnation Ileepcth not : God bath Exod,,& vowed Le will not hold themgu ltlefle, fwurn theft fweareis (lull Uf L o' never enter into his refl. And for men, thole that have but any ingenuity, abhor and Own their company. : Thevei9TnYks have the Chnitiansblafpheming of Chriltenexecratiot, and will pu. nifh their priloners forely, when as through impatienceor deipe- . rateneffe they burft out into them. Yea the J.ws, as tI.eir coca verfion is much hindered by the t lafphe to icsur the Ir&.lirs (who blafphtme oftner then fwear.) fo in their fpeculationsof the caufes of the flrange lu:cefleof the afiitrs of the world, they ,:flign the saalt bis Re. ; reafonofehe Turks prevailing fó against the Chriltians,tobe, their I:,cion of the -oaths and blafphemies, which wound the ears of the veryheavens. w,ti Relig. They can-tell that twearing is one of thole fins, for thewhich God Hot .2. hath a controveifie with a land. And I can tell what a great Di- vine hath obferved, that the ftones in the wall of e4phek (hall £oner turnexecutioners, then a blasphemous,Aramite1hallleapt DHás can u:rrevenged. So much Both a jealousGod hate to be rob'd ot his Wia, llglory, or wronged inhis Name, even by ignorant Pagans (hovi much more by prof&} Chriftians ?) who(e tongues might leW
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