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10 Scripture is o frequently abued by profane Men; or, what is our preent Cae, to frame them into Oaths and Cures. And yet how common it is with many Chritians, in their ordinary Dicoure, to deire this, or that to be done for the Love of God, or the Sake of God, or of Chrit: And o declare the mot trifling Things to be true, with a olemn Vow, upon their Faith, or upon their Salvation, or, as God hall ave them, or judge them; and to vent their Rage and Paion in horrible Oaths, by the Blood and the Wounds of the Son of God and the Redeemer of Men; the hearing of which is enough to make any erious Chritian to tremble. All uch Oaths (as well as thoe others by the Names of God and Chrit, and of our Maker and Redeemer) do carry in them a double Guilt. 1. The profaneing of Things by common Ue, which are anctified to a Religious Ue; and which, as they immediately relate to the great Buines of another Life, do require our mot erious Thoughts and Meditations, and ought never to be uttered in an idle or trifling Way. 2. The Guilt