Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

VII. In all your Conferences speak nothing but the truth; This direction the Apostle giveth,¹ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour. Though lying be a sin common amongst all sorts of people, not only children, but also grown men and women▪ as in their ordinary discourse, so especially in their trading, wherein what more ordinary than lying and dissembling, yet is it a most heinous sin, as will appear by due consideration of these particulars.

VII. In all your Conferences speak nothing but the truth; This direction the Apostle giveth,¹ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour. Though lying be a sin common amongst all sorts of people, not only children, but also grown men and women▪ as in their ordinary discourse, so especially in their trading, wherein what more ordinary than lying and dissembling, yet is it a most hainous sin, as will appear by due consideration of these particulars.

1. 1Ephes. 4. 25

1 It is a Sin against knowledge and conscience; it cannot be ignorantly committed,¹ for ignorance is against the nature of a lye; the word in Latin to lye, is as much as to speak against ones mind and knowledge.

1 It is a Sin against knowledge and conscience; it cannot be ignorantly committed,¹ for ignorance is against the nature of a lye; the word in Latine to lye, is as much as to speak against ones mind and knowledge.