Page:Admonition against Profane and Common Swearing.djvu/14

14 Hitherto you have een the Sinfulnes of common Swearing: And every Practice that is inful being a Trangreion of ome Law, I have hewn you, that this is a Trangreion of a plain and poitive Law given by Jeus Chrit. And the more clear and expres this Law is, the greater is the Guilt of going on in an open Contempt of it.

2. You hall now ee the Aggravations of Guilt, which render common Swearers more wicked and inexcuable than any other Sinners whatoever.

One great Aggravation is, That there is no Temptation to Swearing: By the Commiion of mot other Sins, ome natural Deire or Inclination is atisfied, or ome preent Interet is erved. But the common Swearer has nothing of this to plead in his Excue: He cannot ay, there is any Thing in his Contitution that inclines him to Swearing, or that he erves any worldly Purpoe or Advantage by it; and therefore he ins for the Sake of Sinning, only to defy and provoke God. Now the les Temptation there is to commit any Sin, the Commiion of it becomes more ,