A summons for svvearers, and a law for the lips in reproving them: wherein the chiefe disswasives from swearing are proposed, the sleight objections for swearing answered, the strange judgments upon swearers, forswearers, cursers, that take Gods name in vain, related. Which may be a terror to the wicked for swearing, and a preservative for the godly from swearing. With sundry arguments to prove the verity of the Scriptures, and excellencie of the decalogue, against all prophane and atheisticall deniers thereof. By Walter Powell, preacher at Standish, neer Glocester.
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A summons for svvearers, and a law for the lips in reproving them: wherein the chiefe disswasives from swearing are proposed, the sleight objections for swearing answered, the strange judgments upon swearers, forswearers, cursers, that take Gods name in vain, related. Which may be a terror to the wicked for swearing, and a preservative for the godly from swearing. With sundry arguments to prove the verity of the Scriptures, and excellencie of the decalogue, against all prophane and atheisticall deniers thereof. By Walter Powell, preacher at Standish, neer Glocester.
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Powell, Walter, b. 1590 or 91.
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London :: Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldersgate-street [and are to be sold by Benjamin Allen, at the signe of the Crown in Popes-head Alley],
1645.
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"A summons for svvearers, and a law for the lips in reproving them: wherein the chiefe disswasives from swearing are proposed, the sleight objections for swearing answered, the strange judgments upon swearers, forswearers, cursers, that take Gods name in vain, related. Which may be a terror to the wicked for swearing, and a preservative for the godly from swearing. With sundry arguments to prove the verity of the Scriptures, and excellencie of the decalogue, against all prophane and atheisticall deniers thereof. By Walter Powell, preacher at Standish, neer Glocester." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A90903.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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Sundry dehortations out of Scrip∣ture against swearing.
THeem that sinne rebuke openly, that the rest may feare, 1 Tim. 5.20.
Rebuke not an Elder, but exhort him as a Father, and the younger men as brethren, 1 Tim. 5.1.
Sweare not at all, Matth. 5.34.
Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, Matth. 5.33.
Bless and curse not, Rom. 12.14.
He that heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not, ha∣teth his own soul, Prov. 29.24.
As the Swallow and Sparrow by flying escape, so the curse that is causlesse, shall not come, Prov. 26.2.
How shall I curse where the Lord hath not cursed? Numb. 23.8.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him, Levit. 19.17.
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