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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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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.
3d. Br. 3. It reproves them who are so wicked, as to bear false witness against others. These are Monsters in Nature, unfit to live in a Civil Society. Eusebius relates of one Narcissus, a Man famous for Piety, who was accused by two False Witnesses of Unchastity, and to prove their Accusation, they bound it with Oaths and Curses after this manner: One said, If I speak not true, I pray God I may perish by Fire: The other said, If I do not speak true, I wish I may be deprived of my sight. It pleased God, that the first Witness who forswore himself, his House being set on Fire, he was burnt in the Flame. The other Witness being troubled in Conscience, confessed his Perjury, and continued so long Weeping, that he wept himself blind. Jezebel, who suborned two false Witnesses against Naboth, she was thrown down out of a Window, and the Dogs licked her Blood, 2 Kings 9.33. O tremble at this Sin! A perjured Person is the Devils Excrement. He is cursed in his Name, and seared in his Conscience. Hell gapes for such a Wind-fall.
3d. Br. 3. It reproves them who are so wicked, as to bear false witness against others. These are Monsters in Nature, unfit to live in a Civil Society. Eusebius relates of one Narcissus, a Man famous for Piety, who was accused by two False Witnesses of Unchastity, and to prove their Accusation, they bound it with Oaths and Curses after this manner: One said, If I speak not true, I pray God I may perish by Fire: The other said, If I do not speak true, I wish I may be deprived of my sight. It pleased God, that the first Witness who forswore himself, his House being set on Fire, he was burnt in the Flame. The other Witness being troubled in Conscience, confessed his Perjury, and continued so long Weeping, that he wept himself blind. Iezabel, who suborned two false Witnesses against Naboth, she was thrown down out of a Window, and the Dogs licked her Blood, 2 Kings 9.33. O tremble at this Sin! A perjured Person is the Devils Excrement. He is cursed in his Name, and seared in his Conscience. Hell gapes for such a Wind-fall.