A25294:1192
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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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 ⟨p. 258⟩should alwayes put a difference between truth and falseshood, and the like.
Doct. 2. We ought to love truth, and according as occasion serves, further and advance it.
This is gathered from the words of the Commandment, because veracity, whereby we both love truth, and according to occasion, witness the same, is that virtue here commanded; and is contrary to that sin that is here condemned, in bearing false witness: So that speculative truth is not properly here treated of, neither that which is true generally; but only moral truth, that is, such as belongs to mens manners and consciences; and that is such a truth of our words, as that they agree with our mind, and our mind also with the thing it self, as far as we are bound to know, or profess that we know. And this veracity is to be followed and highly to be prised for these reasons.