A39662:1843
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. It forbids us to injure others, by raising or receiving Lies and false Reports, which are highly injurious to their good Names, Col. 3.9. Lye not one to another, &c.
A. It forbids us to injure others, by raising or receiving Lyes and false Reports, which are highly injurious to their good Names, Col. 3.9. Lye not one to another, &c.
Q. 8. What else is forbidden in the ninth Commandment?
A. It especially forbids Perjury or false Swearing, whereby not only the Names, but Estates and Lives of the innocent are injured and ruined, Psal. 35.11. False witnesses did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Prov. 19.5. A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. A sin which God will punish, Mal. 3.5. And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, &c.