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20 Nor is he les mitaken, when he uppoes, that bold and outragious Swearing adds to his Authority, and makes him appear brave and terrible in the Eyes of his Inferiors. It is true, Rage and Fury are the uual Fore-runners of Violence, and thee force Obedience for the Time; but as Violence makes him inwardly hated by his Servants, o Swearing makes him pitied and depied by them, and both together make him accounted little better than a Madman by all about him. The only true Way to be ure of Duty and Repect from Inferiors, is Calmnes and Decency in the Commands and Admonitions of the Superiors. And while Men fancy they hew the greater Courage and Bravery, the more frequent and horrible their Oaths are; they hould conider what wretched Courage that mut be, which conits in provoking and defying Almighty God.

For this is the Folly above all Follies; that though Men know the Judgments which God has denounced againt this Sin, and what will be the Portion of profane and Common Swearers; they