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A treatise against lying Wherein is showed what it is, the nature and causes…A treatise against lying Wherein is shevved vvhat it is, the nature and causes…
A treatise against lying Wherein is showed what it is, the nature and causes of this sin, the divers kinds of it; and that all of them are sinful, and unlawful, with the motives and means to preserve us from it, or to cure us of it. By John Downame, B. of D. and preacher of Gods Word.A treatise against lying Wherein is shevved vvhat it is, the nature and causes of this sinne, the divers kindes of it; and that all of them are sinfull, and unlawfull, with the motives and meanes to preserve us from it, or to cure us of it. By John Dovvname, B. of D. and preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Nicolas Bourne, 1636
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A TREATISE AGAINST THE SIN OF LYING. › Chapter 9A TREATISE AGAINST THE SINNE OF LYING. › Chapter 9
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And 1therefore if we can by no other means pull impious Heretics out of their secret dens, unless our Orthodox and Catholic tongues do stray out of the path of truth, it is more tolerable that they should still lie hid, than that truth should be impeached; better that these Foxes should lurk in their holes, than that those who hunt them that 2they may take them, should fall into the pit of lies and blasphemy, as the same Author affirmeth. To say nothing that the sin in using this lying policy is certain, but the good issue and event aimed at uncertain, seeing that being in Gods hand he might justly cross and curse this unlawful means, so that they shall not conduce to their conversion, but rather to their further confirming and hardening in their heresy and impiety.
And 1therefore if we can by no other meanes pull impious Heretikes out of their secret dennes, unlesse our Orthodoxe and Catholike tongues doe stray out of the path of truth, it is more tolerable that they should still lie hid, than that truth should bee impeached; better that these Foxes should lurke in their holes, than that those who hunt them that 2they may take them, should fall into the pit of lyes and blasphemy, as the same Author affirmeth. To say nothing that the sinne in using this lying policy is certaine, but the good issue and event aimed at uncertaine, seeing that being in Gods hand hee might justly crosse and curse this unlawfull means, so that they shall not conduce to their conversion, but rather to their further confirming and hardning in their heresie and impiety.
- 1Lib. •. cap. 8.
- 2Tolerabilius in suis foveis delitescerent vulpes, quampropter illas capiendas in blasphemiae foveam caderent vena•ores. Aug. Contra mendacium. lib. 2. cap. 7.