 | George Tomline - 1818 - 608 pages
...Thirty-nine Articles. 567 soever is more than these cometh of evil (a)" And St. James in his Epistle says, " Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation (b)" The Jews, in the time of our Saviour, were very much addicted to the use of oaths of various sorts... | |
 | Jesse Kersey - 1818 - 158 pages
...counsel of his divine master, and to believe it right to give his testimony against swearing. "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into temptation." Taking this general view of the antichristian practice of swearing, the society of friends... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1818 - 384 pages
...Put off also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication, out of your mouth." " Above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither...any other oath ; but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, be nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation." Lave in the spirit of these injunctions. Let not blessing... | |
 | 1818 - 396 pages
...swearing. This opinion the Friends think is fully confirmed by the language in James,, v. 12, *i But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...neither by the earth, neither by any other oath.'' This last clause is regarded by them as extending the prohibition to every species of swearing without... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 568 pages
...clofe of our text, wherewith I conclude ; But alove all things, my brethren, fwear not, neither ly heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other. oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, left ye fall into condemnation, or, *left ye fall under damnation. From the which »^ ^ x^.... | |
 | Thomas Chalkley - 1818 - 462 pages
..." 2dlv. James, the holy apostle of Christ, our lawgiver and our king, says, ' Above all things, mv brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath,' James v. 12. Christ says, Swear not at all; and James, his disciple and apostle, says, Swear not by... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pages
...swearing. This opinion ill* Friends think is fully confirmed by the language in James, v. 12, "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neit/ier by any other cat/i.'' This last clause is regarded by them us extending the prohibition to.... | |
 | Jesse Kersey - 1818 - 152 pages
...and to believe it right to give his testimony against swearing. "But above all things, my bfethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oathj but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into temptation." Taking this general... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...by him that sitteth thereon'. Above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven, fieither by the earth, neither by any other oath. But let your...and your nay nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation*. SECT. 4. Lawful vows or promissory oaths bind the soul, and cannot be retracted. This is the thing... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1819 - 636 pages
...things, my brethren, swear xxxix. not; neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neitlter jumesv ^2 by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. It must be confessed that these words seem to be so express and positive, that great regard is to be... | |
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. 
