A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes…

Verse 22. The lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Verse 22. The lying lippes are abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delight.

The sense is plain enough of it self, if the supply be made of that which is understood in both the clauses. The Lord abhorreth lying lips, that is, those persons that abuse their lips to lying, which will also be false in their deeds: and he is well pleased with them that deal faithfully, which will likewise be true in their words.

THe sense is plaine enough of it selfe, if the supplie bee made of that which is vnderstood in both the clauses. The Lord abhorreth lying lips, that is, those persons that abuse their lippes to lying, which will also bee false in their deedes: and hee is well pleased with them that deale faithfully, which will likewise bee true in their words.

Doct. Every liar is a loathsome person, God doth never hate any thing that is not hateful, and that must needs be odible which he abhorreth, and especially when it is abomination, which is in hie degree abominable unto him. And that he is so affected towards liars, his own word in other places doth testify. As when he saith in this book, These six things doth the Lord hate: ¹yea his soul abhorreth seven: the haughty eyes, and a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood, &c. Ye may know by their companions among whom they are marshalled, what account he maketh of them. And so in the revelation of S. John, ⟨p. 174⟩