Jer. v. 2. And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely. Heb. vi. 16. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Deut. xxix. 10. 12. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day. Ezra x. 5. Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word, and they sware. Isai. xlv. 23. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 1 Sam. xix. 6. And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swear, and said; As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain. Eccles. viii. 2. I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. Psal. xxiv. 3, 4. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

SECTION IV.

1 Pet. iv. 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Phil. ii. 11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Rom. xv. 6. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God in the day of visitation. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Pal. xix. 14. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable

in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer. Matt. xii. 34. O generation of vipers! how can ye being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matt. xv. 11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Rom. x. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Psal. xxxiv. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 1 Cor. xv. 33. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Ephes. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Col. iii. 8. But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

SECTION V.

2 Kings xix. 22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lift up thine eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel. 1 Tim. vi. 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. Matt. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Zech. viii. 17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 5. And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against false-swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. Jer. vii. 9. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other

gods whom ye know not? Psal. x. 7. His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity. Rom. iii. 14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Jam. ii. 10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Eccles. v. 2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. Prov. xxx. 9. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vuin. Mal. i. 6. A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: If I then be a father, where is mine honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And yc say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Phil. ii. 10, 11. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue shauld confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Isai. xlviii. 1. Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah: which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth nor in righteousness. Matt. v. 34–37. But I say unto you, Swear not at all: neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head; because thou canst not make one hair white or black; but let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Jam. v. 12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, be nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Mark viii. 38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when

he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. Rom. ii. 23, 24. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. Acts xxiii. 12. 14. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they came to the chief priests, and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul. Mark vi. 26. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his outh's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. Jer. vii. 4. 9, 10. Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Col. ii. 20, 21, 22. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and doctrines of men. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Jer. v. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 1 Sam. xiv. 39. For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him. Lev. xix. 12. And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou prophane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. 2 Chron.

xxxvi. 13. And he also rebelleth against king Nebuchad nezzar who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. Numb. xxx. 2. If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. Eccles. v. 4, 5. When thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Acts xix. 9. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Heb. x. 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 2 Pet. iii. 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. Deut. xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Acts xvii. 17. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him, Rom. xi. 33, 34. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom, and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Isai. xxxiii. 13. Hear ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might! Deut. xviii. 10, 11, 12. There shall not be