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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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The Use is of Admonition, that out of conscience towards God, we keep our selves from all lying, whether it be that of a pernicious lye, or an officious lye, or a merry lye: Whether it be spoken of our selves, as in our vaunting and dissimulations, or of others, as in calumnies, slanders, backbitings, flatteries, soothings, &c But these lies are chiefly to be shunned, as use to be committed in public judgments, and matter of great weight and importance. 1 Because with how much more advisedness a man lies, by so much his sin is the greater. 2. Because by how much the greater the danger is, that another is brought into by the lye, by so much the sin is the heavier. 3 By how much the greater obligations come together, binding us to speak truth: by so much the sin is multiplied.
The Use is of Admonition, that out of conscience towards God, we keep our selves from all lying, whether it be that of a pernicious lye, or an officious lye, or a merry lye: Whether it be spoken of our selves, as in our vaunting and dissimulations, or of others, as in calumnies, slanders, backbitings, flatteries, soothings, &c But these lyes are chiefly to be shunn'd, as use to be committed in publick judgments, and matter of great weight and importance. 1 Because with how much more advisedness a man lyes, by so much his sin is the greater. 2. Because by how much the greater the danger is, that another is brought into by the lye, by so much the sin is the heavier. 3 By how much the greater obligations come together, binding us to speak truth: by so much the sinne is multiplied.
And that we may abstain from lying, we must abstain from such things as make way for lying; as are rash suspicions, and too great easiness to believe and receive false reports; and a talkative and twattling nature, which by many useth so to be exercised, as without that consideration, whereby they ⟨p. 258⟩should always put a difference between truth and falsehood, and the like.
And that we may abstain from lying, we must abstain from such things as make way for lying; as are rash suspicions, and too great easiness to believe and receive false reports; and a talkative and twatling nature, which by many useth so to be exercised, as without that consideration, whereby they