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Rh, makes the Swearing by them, in Effect, a Swearing by God. 3. The common Swearer is more epecially concerned to oberve the Caue, and the Conequence, of this Sin: The Caue, in what our Saviour here tells him, that it cometh of Evil, (either of an evil Heart, void of all Reverence towards God, or of the evil one, that is of the Devil.) The Conequence, in what St. James adds, that it brings them into Condemnation. 4. Let him diligently attend to that mot excellent Rule for the daily Converation of a Chritian, Let your Communication be yea, yea, and nay, nay; in your Common Dicoure, (of which our Saviour is peaking) go no farther in enforcing what you ay, than bare Affirmations and Denials. In Courts of Jutice, and to erve any erious and weighty Purpoe, an Oath in Truth and Righteounes may lawfully be taken; but in ordinary Dicoure, what our Saviour Chrit has here aid, mut be the Rule of every Peron who deires to maintain a Chritian Converation. Hitherto