VVorse & vvorse, or, A description of their desperate condition who shall presume to take the nevv oath or covenant

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Title: VVorse & vvorse, or, A description of their desperate condition who shall presume to take the nevv oath or covenant
Publication: [Oxford :: L. Lichfield],; 1643.
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Subject terms: Solemn League and Covenant -- (1643); Great Britain -- Church history -- 17th century.
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I A.B. in humility and reverence of the divine Majesty, declare my hearty sorrow for my own sinnes, and the sinnes of this Nation, which have deserved the calamities and Judgements that now lye upon it: And my true intention is by Gods grace, to endeavour the amendment of mine own wayes.]

Well then. Therefore must we take heed, least by multiplying our sinnes by perjuries and false swearing, we doe provoke God to aggravate and multiply his judgements against us; because Rash swearing is a guiltinesse, Lev. 5.4. and a false Oath is one of the greatest profanations of God's name that can be, as all Scripture sheweth; and whereof God gave a document even in the new Testament, by his visible Iudgement upon two perjur'd wretches at once, as was seen be∣fore out of Act. 5.