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<HEAD>TO THE Anti-Quaker MISORCUS CONCERNING OATHS</HEAD>
<P>A Strange forreign Name, come from <HI>Rome</HI> or <HI>Con&s;tanti|nople,</HI> as the
<HI>illiterate Quaker</HI> may think (he for whom he pretends to have taken &s;uch Pains) who being better ac|quainted with Scripture-Language, and &s;eeing his whole Endea|vours through his Book employed in Oppo&s;ing the Command of Chri&s;t, and adjuring men to break it by Swearing, thinks it might have been far more truly, properly &amp; pertinently ANTICHRIST's EXORCIST, as one likely to have &s;uch an Office in that Synagogue, as the highe&s;t Preferment he has been capable to attain. And the rather becau&s;e after the innate Principle thereof he takes upon him immediately after the mention of his weak Endeavours in Doctrine, to ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ure the Magi&s;trate to &s;evere Di&s;cipline, only &s;hort of killing the
<HI>Quakers;</HI> they that delivered the <HI>Martyrs</HI> to be burned, u&s;ed as mild Expre&s;&s;ions. But whether they will obey the Doctrine or no, they mu&s;t not know their dogmatical Doctor further then by his <HI>My&s;tical Name,</HI> for fear (it &s;eems) to have that laid (which he ca&s;ts upon us) where it is due, which he calls <HI>Calumnies, Reproa|ches, Railings, Invectives,</HI> again&s;t which he &s;ayes there is no Fence for the mo&s;t un&s;potted Innocence, and &s;uch may he think there
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<PB N="2" REF="4">is not again&s;t his, who hiding him&s;elf throws them at us, and be|&s;patters us for our di&s;&s;enting from his Opinions, which (in ours) rather de&s;erves the <HI>Epithetes</HI> he be&s;tows. But what Rea&s;on has he to fear, &s;eeing in all our Treati&s;e he cannot find it done to any Name there, though many di&s;&s;enting from us at very great Di&s;tances; but that we rather there &s;hew our &s;elves willing to own the Truth in all, where we can find it in any mea&s;ure, pa&s;&s;ing by the other; yea, even in &s;ome that have given as &s;evere and uncharitable a Character of us, as he has, which, for that Cau&s;e he revives and returns upon us, being offended that any &s;hould menti|on any Truth, that we might agree with them in, and own, accounting that a Detraction from their Reputation, to who&s;e Per&s;on he confe&s;&s;es we have not &s;poken any thing derogatory (neither to any in our whole Treati&s;e of Oaths) And his Words, namely, Bp. <HI>Gauden</HI>'s, he does not deny, neither the purport of them; only he is offended they are to our Purpo&s;e: As he is al&s;o at <HI>Robert Sander&s;on</HI>'s, afterward Bi&s;hop, whereto he is not a&s;hamed to &s;ay, <HI>There is not a Syllable thereof in that Page, viz.</HI> 141. <HI>printed</HI> 1670 <HI>in the</HI> 5th <HI>Lecture,</HI> De Obligatione Juramen|ti. Let any that under&s;tands <HI>Latine</HI> but look the Page towards the Beginning, and &s;ee if there be not <HI>Twenty Eight Syllables,</HI> a whole Sentence, an entire Propo&s;ition betwixt two full Points, <HI>viz. Non opus fuit i&s;ta novo interdicto prohibere quae ex &s;e erant &s;emper illicita.</HI> There was not need by a New Interdiction to prohibit tho&s;e things, which of them&s;elves were alwayes unlawful. Be|cau&s;e he cannot mi&s;-interpret this Man a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> he does <HI>Jerome,</HI> he takes another cour&s;e, a &s;hameful one, to tell a gro&s;s Lye, in denying there are any &s;uch words, taking Advantage belike of the &s;uppo|&s;ed Perfunctorine&s;s, Credulity or Ignorance of his Readers, think|ing they would take all on his Word, without Examination, which is great In u&s;tice. El&s;e he dur&s;t not affirm what he does of <HI>Chry|&s;o&s;tom;</HI> for if any look into the Places cited by us, he may evident|ly &s;ee the contrary; and a Man that dur&s;t &s;hew his Face, not bra|zen, dur&s;t not for very Shame &s;ay as he does, <HI>That his Saying, at lea&s;t, where there is no Nece&s;&s;ity, does therefore allow it, and autho|rize it;</HI> contrary to all the re&s;t he writes. The&s;e Three are all (with <HI>Jerome</HI>) he medles with in his <HI>Preface,</HI> which is all we hear
<PB N="3" REF="4">of after &s;o long Expectation, and &s;o return this in &s;hort; which is enough for a Dogmatical we know not who.</P>
<P>But as for <HI>Jerom</HI>'s Tran&s;lation and Interpretation that he makes, he has &s;hewed him&s;elf as bad a moral Man as divine; for he leaves out of him <HI>[But the Truth of the Go&s;pel receives not an Oath, &s;eeing every faithful Word is for an Oath]</HI> He might with as good Rea&s;on leave out of Chri&s;t's Speech, <HI>But I &s;ay unto you, Swear not at all:</HI> in the mean time charging us with leaving out that which even the Unlearned may read in our Book, all but
<HI>[us]</HI> which is not <HI>Jerom</HI>'s, but his; and yet is not a&s;hamed to tell them, <HI>He &s;hall for their Benefit tran&s;late it Word for Word:</HI> And if &s;o, how is it that he never charges us with leaving out <HI>[us]</HI> a principal Word that determins for him, unle&s;s it were taken indifinitely, as <HI>[We]</HI> before for <HI>Men,</HI> as &s;ometimes by <HI>Paul</HI> and
<HI>James,</HI> the Apo&s;tles: and why charges he us not with adding all that re&s;trictive part afore|&s;aid, which is to be read in ours, and not his? Can it be expected, that the Man that charges us with leaving out that which in plain <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> is there to be &s;een, with our Ob&s;ervation on it, would be &s;o favourable, as to pa&s;s by our leaving out that principal Word for him, and adding the principal part for us too of the whole Comment in <HI>ENGLISH,</HI> if it were not in the <HI>LATINE.</HI> The <HI>Quaker</HI> is not &s;o unlearned as not to perceive the&s;e things; and to know and di&s;cern the Voice of the true Shepherd from the Stranger, and him that hides him&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, and thinks <HI>he may &s;ay any thing, and not be a&s;per&s;ed,</HI> as he &s;ayes, that is, <HI>charged with his lyes and deceit.</HI> Can he account him a true Shepherd that flees and hides him&s;elf from tho&s;e he accounts the Woolves Prey, and be &s;o ra&s;h and carele&s;s (to &s;ay the lea&s;t) in the Work he &s;ayes he undertakes for their Benefit and Recovery, as to examine and compare things no better, and then be &s;o bitter again&s;t them for his own Negligence, as to &s;et the Magi&s;trate at work? Hath not the <HI>Quaker</HI> learned &s;o much as to know, that &s;uch a one careth not for the Sheep, and therefore is a Hireling? He can find no Be|nefit in receiving by an implicit Faith, as of old, a <HI>Latin Comment</HI> from a Prie&s;t's Mouth, that di&s;tingui&s;hes nothing between the <HI>Commands of the Law</HI> and the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> by his Interpretation, which he has cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect, as afore&s;aid. And al&s;o that after Tythes, he
<PB N="4" REF="5">will come for Offerings and Sacrifices too: And if they will not give the Prie&s;t raw Fle&s;h, he will take it by force before he burn the Fat: And can he believe that he Tran&s;lates it for his Benefit, that like the <HI>Rhemi&s;ts</HI> leaves
<HI>Victims</HI> and <HI>Daemons</HI> untran&s;lated, that he may come to him for a new Interpretation, and yet knows not where, nor what is his Name, unle&s;s it be St. <HI>Jerom,</HI> &s;o not only <HI>Chri&s;tening</HI> but <HI>Sainting</HI> him&s;elf. For in&s;tead of confirming his Interpretation, or explaining it out of other places of the &s;ame Father (as one would think by his appeal he would have done) he askes the Que&s;tion, <HI>Doth St.</HI> Jerom <HI>&s;ay any &s;uch thing?</HI> And an&s;wers him&s;elf, <HI>I ab&s;olutely deny it,</HI> without further proof, but his own forged Interpretation, and dogmatical A&s;&s;ertion, the Authority of this new &s;purious <HI>Jerome.</HI> For as for the ancient Fa|ther <HI>Jerome,</HI> the <HI>Illiterate Quaker</HI> need but turn back the Leaf in our Treati&s;e of Oaths, and there he may find, that in one of his Epi&s;tles, he writes, that
<Q REND="margQuotes">We mu&s;t not bla&s;pheme, and &s;ay, the Lord forbad us, what he did him&s;elf:</Q> And &s;ayes,
<Q REND="margQuotes"><HI>That we that are Servants mu&s;t not think to do as the Lord did;</HI></Q> which this man dare not &s;ay was Swearing fal&s;ly or vainly: For that were to bla&s;|pheme with a witne&s;s. But yet he &s;aith, to take off that Ob|jection,
<Q REND="margQuotes"><HI>After the Lord forbad us to Swear, neither did he ever Swear him&s;elf:</HI></Q> May not therefore the <HI>Illiterate Quaker</HI> from this place ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect, that he has put <HI>[us]</HI> not in ours, into his Tran&s;lation, which makes the Father contradict him&s;elf, whom he has a better belief in, then his fal&s;e Son. And may not the
<HI>Illiterate Quaker</HI> ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect his <HI>[if]</HI> and his <HI>[&s;hould]</HI> which he finds not in ours to be of the &s;ame Progeny? Seeing it thru&s;ts out a whole Sentence (to make his &s;ence) which he finds in ours, for none of which pa&s;&s;ages he taxes ours; which certainly he would have done, if we had given him that Advantage, he may think, he finds him not &s;o favourable: Neither doth he find him di&s;approving our Tran&s;lating <HI>[by God]</HI> which he without any in&s;tance oppo&s;es with his Tran&s;lating <HI>[again&s;t God]</HI> for as for ours there may be an In&s;tance in the &s;ame place, for there [<GAP DESC="foreign">] is rendered by
<HI>Pagninus</HI> and <HI>Arias Montanus [in Jeru&s;olyma]</HI> by our Tran&s;lators <HI>[by Jeru&s;alem]</HI> not <HI>[again&s;t Jeru&s;alem]</HI> an&s;werable to <GAP DESC="foreign"> But that his learned
<PB N="5" REF="5"><HI>Brethren of the Mini&s;try</HI> (as he owns them) may take notice how learnedly this their Brother has come to their A&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t us; let them con&s;ider that by his Forgery he has not only made the learned Father break his own Head by Contradiction, and other learned Fathers his Contemporaries, as <HI>Hilary, Chroma|tius, &amp;c.</HI> who with others agree with him, &s;aying,
<Q REND="margQuotes"><HI>Ob&s;erve that Chri&s;t here not only Reproves the</HI> Jews
<HI>Super&s;tition of old, but al&s;o Forbids his to Swear.</HI></Q> (And to them we appeal for
<HI>Jerom,</HI> as well as to him&s;elf: But al&s;o, he makes him al&s;o de&s;perately to break (his Contemporary al&s;o) <HI>Pri&s;cian</HI> the <HI>Grammarian</HI>'s Head. And we do not read, he bare him &s;uch ill-will, &s;hewing him&s;elf as bad Garmmarian as Moral or Divine: For be&s;ides the <HI>[qua&s;i. as]</HI> of &s;imilitude, coupling <HI>[parvulis]</HI> to
<HI>[Judaeis]</HI> under&s;tood; he forges another <HI>[qua&s;i, as if]</HI> of &s;imulation to &s;erve to <HI>[fuerat]</HI> the indicative, and thinks he has got a great advantage <HI>(tanquam fecerit ip&s;e aliquid)</HI> that he has got <HI>[fuerat]</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>fuit:</HI> Which, alas! is none at all, for <HI>fuerat</HI> makes more for us, then <HI>fuit.</HI> He &s;ayes, it's not <HI>[fuit]</HI> and &s;ay we, it's not <HI>[fui&s;&s;et]</HI> oh, but, &s;ayes he, it's
<HI>[fuerat] qua&s;i non norimus,</HI> that <HI>[qua&s;i]</HI> of Simulation <HI>[as if]</HI> requires a Sub|junctive, and not an Indicative. Let any Boy look in his Gram|mar, and prove this
<HI>learned Tran&s;lator</HI> for the <HI>Illiterate Quaker,</HI> and for his <HI>[qua&s;i parvulis]</HI> he will write him therein <HI>[Haereticus ma|ju&s;culis]</HI> as his propere&s;t name: And to make this pa&s;s, he for|ges a di&s;tinction after <HI>[hoc]</HI> to make it accu&s;ative <HI>[this]</HI> and out of it another <HI>[hoc]</HI> a Nominative <HI>[it.]</HI> And &s;o with this great <HI>literate man,</HI> the&s;e little Notes of &s;ence [<HI>but's, not's, ifs</HI> and <HI>and's</HI>] are but as Non&s;ence and Metaphyfical Notions, as In&s;ignificant Nothings, to be multiplyed or &s;ub&s;tracted at plea|&s;ure. This &s;hews he has learned the&s;e and the other Arts he &s;peaks of very notably, or the art of <HI>Grammar</HI> very &s;orrily. What would this Man have done, if he had lived at that time, and had the Tran&s;lating of
<HI>Matthews</HI>'s Book, or had had the handling of <HI>Jerom's</HI> Works before
<HI>Era&s;mus;</HI> he would have been a notable Arti&s;t in the <HI>Expurgatory Office:</HI> And as if he had learned it there, and were to Practice it among <HI>Prote&s;tants;</HI> he &s;hews what he would do, (if it were feizable and permitted) by <HI>Bi&s;hop Sander&s;on;</HI> for
<PB N="6" REF="6">he would not leave one Syllable
<HI>un-obliturated,</HI> that made again&s;t him or his Party. But the Lord's Mercy has re&s;cued the&s;e our Times and Places from any ones expectation of any &s;uch attempt. We &s;ay not
<HI>Bi&s;hop Gauden</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hop Sander&s;on</HI> are again&s;t Swearing at all; but we &s;ay, what we cite out of them is truly cited: who&s;e words one would have thought, he would have made it his bu&s;ine&s;s, not to deny, and oppo&s;e with &s;everal Rea&s;ons, as if they had been Forged by us: But to have defended, and &s;hewn to what purpo&s;e they had been, if not to ours, if he could; and &s;o to have &s;hewn his Art.</P>
<P>But we &s;ay, That <HI>Jerom</HI> and <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> and tho&s;e learned Fathers, with &s;everal others are again&s;t it; as they that will make tryal, will be able to judge, if they do it without Prejudice; and to that we refer it, again&s;t all his <HI>Slanders, Forgings</HI> and
<HI>Wre&s;tings,</HI> which are not worth an&s;wering, they are &s;o gro&s;s. What are of any moment in his Arguments are an&s;wered already to others, only this at pre&s;ent to what is cited by him out of Bi&s;hop <HI>Sander&s;on,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Swearing is not Ceremonial, and mu&s;t continue, becau&s;e Controver&s;ies mu&s;t:</HI> We deny that Strife and Controver&s;ie mu&s;t endure; e&s;pecially &s;uch Controver&s;ies for the ending of which Oaths were permitted, they mu&s;t fail, and Cha|rity never fail. <HI>Controver&s;ie</HI> is not of an <HI>everla&s;ting Nature,</HI> as <HI>Love</HI> that is moral, is, upon this ground <HI>Swearing</HI> mu&s;t fail. And &s;o is not Moral but Ceremonial; as may be &s;hewed by the defi|nition of a Ceremony from two Bi&s;hops, <HI>J. Wilkins,</HI> and <HI>W. Floyd,</HI> in the real <HI>Character.</HI> For there Ceremony is defined a <HI>&s;olemn Circum&s;tance,</HI> which is an external mode, wherewith things are accompanyed and done: Now without this the controver&s;ie failes betwixt us; for abate us the &s;olemn Circum&s;tance wherewith it is accompanyed &amp; done, the thing, confe&s;&s;ing Truth, &s;peaking in the fear of God, we do not refu&s;e. The Circum&s;tances denominates and determins it
<HI>Swearing.</HI> For the number Seven, as the word <HI>[&s;heba]</HI> &s;ignifies, is a
<HI>Circum&s;tance</HI> u&s;ed by the <HI>Ancients</HI> about it, as appears, <HI>Gen.</HI> 21. the fir&s;t place we find the word in: And &s;o is <HI>jicrethu berith</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> they made a Covenant, the &s;ame with <HI>Ferire Faedus</HI> u&s;ed by the <HI>Heathen.</HI> The Sub&s;tance of the old <HI>Swearing,</HI> which the Apo&s;tle calls <HI>Confe&s;&s;ing, Rom.</HI>
14.11. we deny not. It is the
<PB N="7" REF="6">Ceremony, Circum&s;tance and Solemnity you contend with us for, which is Swearing, if Judicial it binds not.</P>
<P>Yet this Man is not a&s;hamed to expo&s;tulate, WHATSO|EVER IS COMMANDED IN THE OLD TESTA|MENT, IS IT NOT COMMANDED IN THE NEW; making no Di&s;tinction of Judicial, Ceremonial and Moral, and making it heinous to affirm the contrary. Who knoweth what he would be at?</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>By One &s;ub&s;cribed to the</HI> Treati&s;e of OATHS, <HI>with Con&s;ent of the Re&s;t, R. R.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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