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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.
Motives or Arguments against the sin of Lying.
1. It is as expressly against the letter of the Law as any other sin. Read Lev. 19. 11. Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lye one to another. And Col: 3. 9. Lye not one to another.
1. It is as expresly against the letter of the Law as any other sin. Read Lev. 19. 11. Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsly, neither lye one to another. And Col: 3. 9. Lye not one to another.
2. Lying is a mark of the Devils Children, Joh. 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil—he abode not in the truth, because there is not truth in him. When he speaketh a lye, he speaketh of his own, for he is a Liar and the Father of it. God is a God of truth, and his Children are Children that will not Lye, Isa. 63. 8. Satan is said, Act. 5. 3. To fill the heart to Lye. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to Lye to the Holy Ghost?
2. Lying is a mark of the Devils Children, Joh. 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil—he abode not in the truth, because there is not truth in him. When he speaketh a lye, he speaketh of his own, for he is a Lyar and the Father of it. God is a God of truth, and his Children are Children that will not Lye,