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6 to forbid Perjury or Fale Swearing; yet being interpreted in a Chritian Sene, it is a Precept againt all vain and common Swearing, and epecially by the Name of God. I hall put you in Mind, by and by, how exprely our Saviour forbids Chritians to wear by the Creatures, becaue of the Relation they bear to their Creator, and becaue as they are the Creatures of God, to wear by them is in Effect to wear by God; and then it mut be a Sin of a much higher Nature, for Men in their common Converation to wear directly by God himelf.

The Name of God is pronounced in Scripture, to be holy, and glorious, and reverend; and it is one Part of the Prayer, which our Saviour taught us, that God’s Name may be hallowed; that is, that it may be thought and poken of by us and all other Perons, with great Seriounes and Reverence, as a Name that is anctified, and et above common and ordinary Ue. Which ought to teach all Chritians to ue it paringly and reverently; not to bring it too familiarly into any of their Dicoures concerning the Affairs of this World,