XXIV.
Swearers, who through Custom or Anger take the Name of God in vain, and others who prophane the Majesty of the Lord, shall be grevously censur'd and after one or two ad∣monitions,
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Swearers, who through Custom or Anger take the Name of God in vain, and others who prophane the Majesty of the Lord, shall be grevously censur'd and after one or two ad∣monitions,
if they desist not, shall be suspended the Lords Table; and outragious Blasphemers, as also Damee's, and the like, shall by no meanes be tollerated in the Church, but from the first offence, shall be censured even to suspension from the Sacrament, and if they persist, they shall be publickly Excommunicated.
The foundation of this Article is taken from the third Commandment of the first Table of the Law, Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain, After so strict a prohibition, and so terrible a Comminati∣on our Discipline had Reason to establish punishments against the Infringers of this Commandment, to a∣void all blame and reproach, * 1.1 because as Gregory the first says, Him that corrects not what should be taken away, doth commit it; Our King St. Lewis, made an Ordinance in the year 1270, to bannish out of his Kingdom, Blas∣phemies, and Oaths, whereby the Majesty of God is criminaly prophan'd.
L. 7. Ind. 2 Epist. 6. Tom. 2. Spicil. pag. 548.