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12 Thee are plain and poitive Precepts, which ought to be well conidered and undertood by the Vain-Swearers; as directly forbidding that, which they (in Contempt of the Authority of our Bleed Saviour and his Apotle) make their daily and hourly Practice. And the Things which they ought to know and oberve concerning them, are chiefly thee. 1. That they were occaioned by a mitaken Opinion among the Jews, that if they did not wear directly by God, it was no Sin to wear by his Creatures. And conidering how common it is among Chritians, to wear by the Heavens, by their Life, by their Soul, and by other Creatures of God, one would think they were of the ame Opinion of the Jews, and had never heard of thoe clear and direct Precepts of the Gopel againt it. 2. They are to oberve the Reaons, why our Saviour and his Apotle forbid this Sort of Swearing; both becaue the Creatures of God are not in our Power to be ued by us otherwie than he has appointed, and becaue the immediate Relation which they bear to God as their ,