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  Certaine irrefragable propositions worthy of serious consideration. By I.H. B. of Exon
  Date of publication:
  1639
  

  Author(s):

  Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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  Dedication signed: Jos: Exon, i.e. Joseph Hall. Concerns oaths and covenants. Printer's name from STC. Reproduction of the original in Harvard University. Library.
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  A Christen exhortacion vnto customable swearers What a ryght [and] lawfull othe is: whan, and before whom, it owght to be. Item. The maner of sayinge grace, or geuynge thankes vnto God.
  Date of publication:
  1543
  

  Author(s):

  Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568. and Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed name.
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  By Miles Coverdale. Sometimes attributed to John Bale. Partly in verse. Imprint from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A svvoord agaynst swearyng conteyning these principall poyntes. 1 That there is a lawful vse of an oth, contrary to the assertion of the Manichees & Anabaptistes. 2 Howe great a sinne it is to swear falsly, vaynely, rashly, or customably. 3 That common or vsual swearing leadeth vnto periurie. 4 Examples of Gods iuste and visible punishment vpon blasphemers, periurers, and suche as haue procured Gods wrath by cursing and bannyng, which we cal execration.
  Date of publication:
  1579
  

  Author(s):

  Bicknoll, Edmond.
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  "The epistle dedicatorie" signed: Edmond Bicknoll. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The Christen rule or state of all the worlde from the hyghest to the lowest and how euery man shulde lyue to please God in hys callynge. Item, the Christian state of matrimony: and how ma[n] and wife shuld kepe house together with loue. Item, the maner oe [sic] saynge grace after the holy scrypture.
  Date of publication:
  1548
  

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  Tyndale, William, d. 1536. Obedience of a Christen man and how Christen rulers ought to governe. aut ; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. Christlich Eestand. aut ; Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568. Christen exhortacion unto customable swearers. aut and Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed name. aut
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  Sometimes attributed, in error, to Miles Coverdale. Part 1 in fact compiled from: Tyndale, William. The obedience of a Christen man and how Christen rulers ought to governe. Part 2 is a translation of: Bullinger, Heinrich. ...
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  The reasons of the new converts taking the oaths to the present government in a dialogue / by the author of the Reasons of Mr. Bay's conversion.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.
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  Written by Thomas Brown. Cf. DNB. Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
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  The Humble petition of the county of Cornwall to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie subscribed by above seven thousand hands : with His Majesties answer thereunto : whereunto is added the oaths of allegiance and supremacie.
  Date of publication:
  1642
  

  Author(s):

  Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  One antidote more, against that provoking sin of swearing, by reason of which this land now mourneth given forth from under the burden of the oppressed seed of God, by way of reply both to Henry Den's epistle about the lawfulness, antiquity, and universality of an oath, and his answers to the Quakers objections against it, recommended (by him) to all the prisons in this city and nation to such as chuse restraint, rather then the violation of their consciences : and also to Jeremiah Ives his printed plea for swearing, entitituled, The great case of conscience opened, &c. about the lawfulness or unlawfulness of swearing, which said reply to these two opposers of the truth, as it is in Jesus, is recommended not onely to all the prisons in this city and nation, and to all such real Christians, as chuse restraint rather then the violation of their consciences, but also, to all such nominal Christians out of prison, as, rather then restrain, chuse to purchase their earthly liberties by swearing, to the violation of the command of Christ, who saith, Mat. 5.33, swaer not at all. Jam. 5.12, above all things my brethren swear not / by Samuel Fisher ...
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.
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  Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
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  A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

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  F. M.
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  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  The kitchin-maids answer to the London apprentice's Word to the wavering Levite, &c. being a vindication of the Reverend Dr. Sherlock ... for his taking the oaths.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Kitchin-maid.
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  Two columns to the page. Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
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  Caution humbly offer'd about passing the bill against blasphemy
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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  Caption title. Place and date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). This item appears at reel 2129:14 as Wing (2nd ed.) P1264, and at reel 2604:1 as Wing (2nd ed.) C1564A. Reproduction of original in: British Library.
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