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Custom-houſe oaths and political oaths are but little regarded even by ſome who pretend to principles of honeſty and religion: and a Quaker’s aſſeveration is with us juſtly put upon the ſame footing with the oath of any other perſon.
[…] on all such occasions Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters with great ardour, doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner; but always maintaining, with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one.
1861, J[ohann] P[eter] Lange, translated by Alfred Edersheim, Theological and Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew. Specially Designed and Adapted for the Use of Ministers and Students., volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson, page 228:
The true oath consists in the simple asseveration, uttered in perfect consciousness and under a sense of the presence of God, before Him, and in Him.
After this homily which he delivered with much warmth of asseveration Mr Mulligan in a trice put off from his hat a kerchief with which he had shielded it.