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…

Reasons. 1 First, nothing is more contrary to the nature of God, who is infinitely true, and trueth it self, then guile and falsehood is. And nothing maketh men more like to satan, and workers of his will, then lying. So our Saviour told the wicked unbelieving Jews: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in ¹him. When he speaketh a lie, then he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. It is his mother tongue, and native language to lie; when he uttereth any true sentence it is but borrowed, and that also he cannot truly deliver, without gross deceit and dissimulation.

Reasons. 1 First, nothing is more contrarie to the nature of God, who is infinitely true, and trueth it selfe, then guile and falsehood is. And nothing maketh men more like to sathan, and workers of his will, then lying. So our Sauiour told the wicked vnbeleeuing Iewes: Yee are of your father the diuell, and the lustes of your father ye will doe. He abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in ¹him. When he speaketh a lie, then he speaketh of his owne: for hee is a lier, and the father thereof. It is his mother tongue, and natiue language to lie; when he vttereth any true sentence it is but borrowed, and that also he cannot truely deliuer, without grosse deceit and dissimulation.

1. 1John 8. 44.Iohn 8. 44.

Secondly, lying is a work of the old man, and that which misbecommeth the children of God, and liars such as give themselves ¹