Page:Admonition against Profane and Common Swearing.djvu/16

16 Earth, as the Saints and Angels do in Heaven; o he who accutoms it to Oaths and Cures, is daily preparing it for the Language of Hell. And the Time is coming, (if he repent not) when he will have Caue to wih a Thouand Times over, that he had been born as dumb as the Beats that perih, or, ince he was not, that he had perihed like them.

When you have read and conidered this hort Account of the Sinfulnes of Common-Swearing, go on and reflect eriouly, in the next Place,

II. Upon the great Folly of it. Conider how Men fall at firt into the Cutom of Swearing; that it is never taken up (as all wife Deigns are) with Conideration, or upon a Foreight of any Benefit that is like to arie from it; but is uually owing to profane Company, and uffered to grow into a Habit through a upine careles Humour, for want of thinking what is right or wrong, lawful or unlawful, wie or foolih. And no Practice can be more unreaonable, than that which is