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28 XXXV. At Tubinga in Germany, a deſperate boy uſed to invent ſuch new oaths as were not common but it pleaſed God to ſend a canker, or ſome worſe diſeaſe, which eat out his tongue, that inſtrument wherewith he blaſphemed.—German Hiſt.

XXXVI. There was a certain wretch, who in his life time was dreadfully inclined to the horrid ſin of ſwearing, and when he came upon his death-bed, his heart was ſo ſet on fire of hell, and ſo exceedingly filled with enraged madneſs againſt heaven, that he deſperately deſired the ſtanders by to help him with oaths, and to ſwear for him, though he himſelf in the meantime ſwore as faſt and furiouſly as he could.—Mr. Robert Bolton.

XXXVII. One hearing perjury condemned by a miniſter, and how it ſeldom or ever eſcaped unpuniſhed, he in a bravery ſaid, I have often forſworn myſelf, and yet my right hand is no ſhorter than my left; which words he had ſcarcely uttered, when ſuch an inflammation aroſe in that hand, that he was forced to have it immediately cut off, leſt it ſhould have infected the whole body, whereby it ſoon became ſhorter than the other.—Clark's Examples, 1 part.

XXXVIII. A young lady of conſiderable eſtate in Saxony, promiſed marriage to a handſome young man, but of a mean fortune; he foreſeeing that wealth and inconſtancy might alter her mind, freely diſcovered his thoughts to her, whereupon ſhe made a thouſand proteſtations of her conſtancy to him, and as many imprecations upon herſelf, wiſhing, That if ever ſhe married another, that the devil might take her away on the wedding day; yet afterwards a perſon of more wealth making his addreſſes to