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Here, by the way note what wrong they do who bring ¹false reports to mens ears: as, reports of victory, when people are overthrown. 1. They to whom the report is brought are deceived, and made to believe an untruth. 2. They of whom the report is made, are by the false report deprived of that help which otherwise they might have had. 3. God himself is mocked, in that that which is not done, is acknowledged to be done by him, and so when prayer should be made, praise is given for that which is not.

Here, by the way note what wrong they do who bring ¹false reports to mens eares: as, reports of victory, when people are overthrowne. 1. They to whom the report is brought are deceived, and made to believe an untruth. 2. They of whom the report is made, are by the false report deprived of that helpe which otherwise they might have had. 3. God himself is mocked, in that that which is not done, is acknowledged to be done by him, and so when prayer should be made, praise is given for that which is not.

1. 1The ill consequences of false news.The ill consequences of false newes.

We have not a mountain to go to the top of it, and to ¹behold all the battles of the Churches, as Moses here on the top of an hill beheld the Israelites fighting. We must have knowledge of foreign affairs (as Nehemiah had) by report. If that report be false, how shall we order our prayers? Yet there is commonly such uncertainties in rumours and reports, as fame is said to be an evil thing. For even then when it declares some truth, it is not free from the blame of lying, in that it taketh away from the truth, or addeth thereto, or some way or other altereth it. It is not therefore without cause said, that fame useth to lie.