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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
Obj. Yea but God commendeth and rewarded many for their Officious Lye.
A. It is not so. God never commended, nor rewarded any for their Lye; Indeed many did excellent works by this means, (which had yet been better had they not used a Lye) as Rahah, the Egyptian Midwives, and others. In their works they gave great testimony of their faith, though in their Lye of their frailty. Now it was their faith which God commended, and the things they did, not the manner of doing them, for therein they failed, and God was merciful to them. So much for the several kinds of Lies.
A. It is not so. God never commended, nor rewarded any for their Lye; Indeed many did excellent works by this means, (which had yet been better had they not used a Lye) as Rahah, the Aegyptian Midwives, and others. In their works they gave great testimony of their faith, though in their Lye of their frailty. Now it was their faith which God commended, and the things they did, not the manner of doing them, for therein they failed, and God was merciful to them. So much for the several kinds of Lyes.
III. For the third particular, namely The greatness and heinousness of this sin of Lying. Surely of sins that are lightly accounted of in the World, and commonly committed, it's one of the most heinous, which appeareth.