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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 1 › Chapter 10: Of GOD's particular Laws as known in Nature.
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.
§. 32. Government and Justice being so necessary to the order and welfare of the world, Nature teacheth us that bribery, fraud, 1false-witness, and all means that pervert Justice must be avoided, and equity promoted among all.
- 1Aristotle, Ethic. 4. saith, Every lie is evil, and to be avoided. The Roman Laws against perjury and false witness and bribery, tell us what nature saith thereabout. Read in Lamprid. how vehement Alexander Severus was against bribery. Fundamentum justitiae est fides, id est, dictorum conventorumque constantia & veritas. Cicer.
§. 33. The Tongue of Man being made to be the Index of his mind, and humane converse being maintained by humane credibility and confidence; Nature telleth us, that Lying is a crime, which is contrary to the nature and societies of Mankind.
§. 34. And Nature telleth us, that it is unjust and criminal to slander or injuriously defame our neighbour, by railing, reviling, or malicious reports; and that we ought to be regardful of his honour as of our own.