The greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them end of all strife. Deut. xxix. 10. 12. Ye stand this all of you before the Lord your God; your captains our tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the - of Israel. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy - maketh with thee this day. Ezra x. 5. Then arose a, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Is

to swear that they should do according to this d, and they sware. Isai. xlv. 23. I have sworn by mythe word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, I shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, y tongue shall swear. 1 Sam. xix. 6. And Saul rkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swear, - said ; As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain. Eccles. - 2. I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, that in regard of the oath of God. Psal. xxiv. 3, 4. no shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall nd in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a e heart; who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity, nor rn deceitfully.

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Pet. iv. 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the teles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of ability which God giveth: that God in all thing's may glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and minion for ever and ever. Amen. Phil. ii. 11. And at every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is rd to the glory of God the Father. Rom. xv. 6. That ye ty with one mind and one mouth glorify God in the day visitation. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so shine before en, that they may see your good works, and glorify your ither which is in heaven. Pal. xix. 14. Let the words my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matt. xv. 11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Rom. x. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Psal. xxxiv. 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 1 Cor. xv. 33. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Ephes. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Col. iii. 8. But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written. Acts xxiii. 12. 14. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they came to the chief priests, and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul. Mark vi. 26. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his outh's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. Jer. vii. 4. 9, 10. Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Col. ii. 20, 21, 22. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and doctrines of men. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Jer. v. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 1 Sam. xiv. 39. For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him. Lev. xix. 12. And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou prophane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. 2 Chron.

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neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the ■ God of Israel. Numb. xxx. 2. If a man vow a unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with nd; he shall not break his word, he shall do according I that proceedeth out of his mouth. Eccles. v. 4, 5. en thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it; e hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast 1. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that shouldest vow and not pay. Acts xix. 9. But when s were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil at way before the multitude, he departed from them, separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school ne Tyrannus. Heb. x. 29. Of how much sorer punisht, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath Hen under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy -, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? et. iii. 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. 1. xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our - but those things which are revealed belong unto us, to our children for ever, that we may do all the words is law. Acts xvii. 17. Therefore disputed he in the gogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, in the market daily with them that met with him, n. xi. 33, 34. O the depth of the riches both of the wisand knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his ments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath vn the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counr? 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speakn them of these things; in which are some things hard e understood, which they that are unlearned and une wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their destruction. Isai. xxxiii. 13. Hear ye that are far vhat I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge might! Deut. xviii. 10, 11, 12. There shall not be