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Author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Title: A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament.
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Print source: A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament.
Penn, William, 1644-1718., Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689., Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689., Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.

[London?: s.n.], 1675.
Subject terms:
Society of Friends -- Doctrines.
Oaths.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70779.0001.001
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Table of Contents
Some Inducements Offer'd TO Answer this REQƲEST, From a Consideration of the Cause and End of an Oath, And those REASONS AND TESTIMONIES, Given by us against the USE and IMPOSITION of it.
Memorable TESTIMONIES against Swearing, collected out of the Wri∣tings of Gentiles, Jews & Christians; some of which were deliver'd to the World several Ages before Swear not at all was writ by Matthew, or spoaken by Christ; which makes Swearing, but especially Punishing for not Swearing, among Christians, so much the more Disallowable.
III. Testimonies from Christians, both Fathers, Doctors and Martyrs, in Dislike of All Swearing.