conſider, you cannot but know that the Cuſtom of Vain-Swearing, into which you are unhappily fallen, is a great Sin, againſt which God has denounced very heavy Judgments. And how nearly it concerns me, who am your Spiritual Paſtor, to warn you of your Danger, you will ſee by the Command which God has laid upon every Paſtor of his Church, (Ezek. iii. 18.) When I ſay unto the wicked, Thou ſhalt ſurely die, and thou giveſt him not Warning, nor ſpeakeſt not to warn the Wicked from his wicked Way to ſave his Life; the ſame wicked Man ſhall die in his Iniquity, but his Blood will I require at thy Hand.
Wherefore, I beſeech you to take this Admonition in good Part, and to liſten to it as a Warning ſent you by the Providence of God, to deliver your Soul from eternal Deſtruction. Do not ſpend Time in gueſſing or enquiring how I came to underſtand that you are particularly guilty of this Sin; but ſince you know it to be true, and the Conſequence of your going on without Reproof ſhould have been your Ruin for ever; eſteem it as a ſpecial Mercy and
