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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.
1. The heinousness of Lying appeareth, in that it is a sin against knowledge and Conscience. It cannot be committed ignorantly, but against knowledge, and consequently against Conscience, if it be not past feeling.
5. The heinousness of this sin appears in that it is ordinarily an aggravation of other sins It is often made use of as a covering for sin. When men are faulty, a Lie must be contrived to conceal the matter. Thy Servant went no whither, said Gehazi, when he had been taking a Bribe. Let his Leprosy speak what advantage his Lye got him.
5. The heinousness of this sin appears in that it is ordinarily an aggravation of other sins It is often made use of as a covering for sin. When men are faulty, a Lie must be contrived to conceal the matter. Thy Servant went no whither, said Gehazi, when he had been taking a Bribe. Let his Leprosie speak what advantage his Lye got him.
Dare to be true, nothing can need a Lye. A Fault that needs it most, grows two thereby.
Herbert's Divine Poem.