The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

But lastly, this Sin is not so small as you make it; For as it renders a Man most unlike to God, whose grand Attribute is Truth; So it is ranked among those Sins which he is said particularly to hate, Prov. 6. 16. A proud Look, allying Tongue; and there is so much Atheism and Hypocrisy included in a Lie, that all Liars are ranked with Murderers, Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and lodged with them in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone for ever: Rev. 21. 8.

But lastly, this Sin is not so small as you make it; For as it renders a Man most unlike to God, whose grand Attribute is Truth; So it is rank'd among those Sins which he is said particularly to hate, Prov. 6. 16. A proud Look, alying Tongue; and there is so much Atheisin and Hypocrisy included in a Lie, that all Liars are rank'd with Murderers, Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and lodged with them in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone for ever: Rev. 21. 8.

Object. 3. Necessity compels us to it: We can neither buy nor sell without somewhat of it; neither will People believe us when we speak never so truly, and so we are forced to lie; there is no trading, or at least no gaining a sufficient Livelihood without it.

Object. 3. Necessity compells us to it: We can neither buy nor sell without somewhat of it; neither will People believe us when we speak never so truly, and so we are forc'd to lie; there is no trading, or at least no gaining a sufficient Livelihood without it.