A69235:172
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 14A TREATISE AGAINST THE SINNE OF LYING. › Chapter 14
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and not because they have in them any reality of Trueth. And therefore seeing these lies are also unlawful as being opposite to Truth; I conclude that there are not any lawful, according to that of Saint Augustine: There are (saith he) many kinds of lies, 1all which universally we ought to hate. For there is no lye which is not contrary to Truth; for as light and darkness, piety and impiety, justice and iniquity, sin and righteousness, health and sickness, life and death; even so Truth and lying are contrary to one another, and therefore as much as we love that, so much ought this to be hated and abhorred. And again, those things which are done against the Law of God cannot be just, and David saith unto God, thy Law is Truth; so that 2what is against Truth, cannot be just, as all lies are, &c. And therefore when examples of lying are alleged out of the Scriptures, either they are not lies, but are only thought so, because they are not understood, or if they be lies, they may not be imitated, because they are not just, as being against Truth.
and not because they have in them any reallity of Trueth. And therefore seeing these lyes are also unlawfull as being opposite to Truth; I conclude that there are not any lawfull, according to that of Saint Augustine: There are (saith he) many kindes of lyes, 1all which universally we ought to hate. For there is no lye which is not contrary to Truth; for as light and darkenesse, piety and impiety, justice and iniquity, sinne and righteousnesse, health and sicknesse, life and death; even so Truth and lying are contrary to one another, and therefore as much as we love that, so much ought this to bee hated and abhorred. And againe, those things which are done against the Law of God cannot bee just, and David saith unto God, thy Law is Truth; so that 2what is against Truth, cannot bee just, as all lyes are, &c. And therefore when examples of lying are alleadged out of the Scriptures, either they are not lyes, but are onely thought so, because they are not understood, or if they bee lyes, they may not be imitated, because they are not just, as being against Truth.