Oaths: Custom of Swearing by the Life of the King
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The Heinous Sin of Profane Cursing and Swearing
... but withal more common, than the abominable custom of profane ... but perform unto the
Lord thine oaths; but I ... persons, who, though not guilty of swearing in the ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the heinous sin of profane.htm

Instructions to Catechumens.
... more than ten days, so as to be altogether free from the evil custom of oaths. But
if after ten days we be detected swearing, let us add a penalty due to ...
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Against Rash and Vain Swearing.
... For so it is, oaths as they commonly pass are mere excrescences of ... Such a conceit,
I say, too many have of swearing, because a custom thereof, together ...
/.../sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/against rash and vain swearing.htm

This HomilyWas Delivered on the Occasion of the Prefect Entering ...
... It treats also on the subject of avoiding oaths, and on the words of the Apostle ...
of evil-speaking, but I put a stop to it; I had a custom of swearing, but I ...
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Matt. v. 27, 28
... by these objects, and he intimates this custom near the ... and of course therefore not
of the oaths made by ... "What then," it may be said, "is not swearing of the ...
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On the Sunday Called "Episozomenes," to those who had Come to ...
... how much God is concerned for the inviolability of oaths. ... if we do not get the better
of custom, how can ... But this practice of swearing takes not even its first ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xix on the sunday.htm

An Exhortation to the People Respecting Fortitude and Patience...
... to expel from your mouth the evil custom of oaths ... the whole of the present week
respecting oaths; thus beginning ... at all to overcome the habit of swearing, if we ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily iv an exhortation to.htm

After the Whole People had Been Freed from all Distress...
... opposite to what he desired, by swearing that no ... was involved in the obligation of
the oaths); and both ... think it a sufficient apology that we can plead custom. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xiv after the whole.htm

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
... his life, and upon the manner of his life in his ... All these causes of swearing, so
far as I can perceive ... flow from the same root as do the oaths themselves, even ...
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An Exhortation to virtue -- and Particularly Upon the Passage...
... the day:""and again on the subject of abstaining from oaths. ... Such is the habitual
custom of those who have ... The labour of swearing is indeed exceedingly great ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily viii an exhortation to.htm

Subtopics

Oaths

Oaths used for Binding to Performance of Any Particular Act

Oaths used for Binding to Performance of Sacred Duties

Oaths used for Confirming Covenants

Oaths used for Deciding Controversies in Courts of Law

Oaths used for Pledging Allegiance to Sovereigns

Oaths: Antiquity of

Oaths: Custom of Swearing by the Life of the King

Oaths: Expressions Used as As the Lord Liveth

Oaths: Expressions Used as As Thy Soul Liveth

Oaths: Expressions Used as Before God I Lie Not

Oaths: Expressions Used As by the Fear of Isaac

Oaths: Expressions Used As by the Lord

Oaths: Expressions Used as God do So to Thee and More Also

Oaths: Expressions Used as God do So to Thee, and More Also

Oaths: Expressions Used as God is Witness

Oaths: Expressions Used as I Call God for a Record

Oaths: Expressions Used as I Charge You by the Lord

Oaths: Expressions Used as The Lord do So to Me, and More Also

Oaths: God Used, to Show the Immutability of his Counsel

Oaths: Judicial from of Administering

Oaths: Often Accompanied by Placing the Hand Under the Thigh of The

Oaths: Often Accompanied by Raising up the Hand

Oaths: Rash: Herod

Oaths: Rash: Jephthah

Oaths: Rash: Joshua

Oaths: Rash: Saul

Oaths: Rash: The Jews Who Sought to Kill Paul

Oaths: The Jews: Condemned for False

Oaths: The Jews: Condemned for Profane

Oaths: The Jews: Fell Into Many Errors Respecting

Oaths: The Jews: Forbidden to Take False

Oaths: The Jews: Forbidden to Take in the Name of Any Created Thing

Oaths: The Jews: Forbidden to Take Rash, or Unholy

Oaths: The Jews: Forbidden to Take, in Name of Idols

Oaths: The Jews: Generally Respected the Obligation of

Oaths: The Jews: Often Guilty of Falsely Taking

Oaths: The Jews: Often Guilty of Rashly Taking

Oaths: The Jews: To Take, in Truth, Judgment

Oaths: The Jews: To Use God's Name Alone In

Oaths: The Lawful Purpose of, Explained

Oaths: To be Taken in Fear and Reverence

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