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A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are…
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.
London: printed for Edw. Brewster, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. What Commandment forbiddeth that which is prejudicial to the truth?
A. The ninth.
Q. What do you mean by that which is prejudicial to the truth?
A. That which doth wrong the truth, or hinder the knowing of it.
Q. Is lying then, or speaking falsely, equivocating, or speaking doubtfully, to the wronging of truth, or justice, and the perverting, and undue concealing of the truth here forbidden, because these are are prejudicial to the truth, and hinder its being known?
Q. Is lying then, or speaking falsly, equivocating, or speaking doubtfully, to the wronging of truth, or justice, and the perverting, and undue concealing of the truth here forbidden, because these are are prejudicial to the truth, and hinder its being known?