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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 2A TREATISE AGAINST THE SINNE OF LYING. › Chapter 2
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In these and such like cases a man lieth not, though he doth not perform ⟨p. 22⟩what he promised, because his mind and tongue agreed when he made it, and the change is not from himself, but from him unto whom he promised, because there is error personae an error in the person, he not being the same man which he was or seemed to be when the promise was made. And thus the Apostle Paul is excused from a lye, when as he said that he would go into Spain, 1whither he went not; and promised the Corinthians, that at such a time he would come unto them, but did not perform it. In neither of which he lied, because when he made these promises he did not dissemble, speaking one thing and thinking another, but speaking then what he afterwards purposed to perform, God did in the mean while otherwise dispose of him; whose disposition overruleth all, and is above all humane resolution.
In these and such like cases a man lyeth not, though hee doth not performe ⟨p. 22⟩what he promised, because his minde and tongue agreed when hee made it, and the change is not from himselfe, but from him unto whom hee promised, because there is error personae an errour in the person, he not being the same man which hee was or seemed to bee when the promise was made. And thus the Apostle Paul is excused from a lye, when as hee said that hee would goe into Spaine, 1whither he went not; and promised the Corinthians, that at such a time hee would come unto them, but did not performe it. In neither of which he lyed, because when he made these promises he did not dissemble, speaking one thing and thinking another, but speaking then what he afterwards purposed to performe, God did in the mean while otherwise dispose of him; whose disposition overruleth all, and is above all humane resolution.