Nor is he leſs miſtaken, when he ſuppoſes, that bold and outragious Swearing adds to his Authority, and makes him appear brave and terrible in the Eyes of his Inferiors. It is true, Rage and Fury are the uſual Fore-runners of Violence, and theſe force Obedience for the Time; but as Violence makes him inwardly hated by his Servants, ſo Swearing makes him pitied and deſpiſed by them, and both together make him accounted little better than a Madman by all about him. The only true Way to be ſure of Duty and Reſpect from Inferiors, is Calmneſs and Decency in the Commands and Admonitions of the Superiors. And while Men fancy they ſhew the greater Courage and Bravery, the more frequent and horrible their Oaths are; they ſhould conſider what wretched Courage that muſt be, which conſiſts in provoking and defying Almighty God.
For this is the Folly above all Follies; that though Men know the Judgments which God has denounced againſt this Sin, and what will be the Portion of profane and Common Swearers;
