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custom of swearing TO truths may insensbly
lead II man to swear to filschoods. Persons
addicted to this practice scarcely know when
they swear; and some when rcprovcd for it,
have sworn that they did not swear.


Iti vulgar. That some Gentlemen swear,
is too true; but it can never be deemed the
mark of a gentleman; for it is vice COM
mon to the vilest characters in the lowest
ranks Of society. 1t produces the most dis
graceful equality-it puts the honorable, the
learned, the polished and the delicate, upon
a level with the most ignorant and deprayed


Besides those horrid oaths which shock
every decent ear, there is vicious habit, in
dulged by many persons, otherwise moral,
and even among some ladies, OF thoughtless
proclamation ofthcir Makers name, OH occa-
sion the most trivial, such as Good God 4!
God forbid God bless us! 0 Lord, &c. &c


This ineXcusablc conduct, shows want
of hatreverence to the best of Beings, which
is essential to true religion, and is as direct
a violation Of that command, "Ihou shalt
not take the name Of the Lord thy God in
vaiu, as the most vulgar profanc oaths.