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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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The second thing considerable in the nature of 1a lye is, that it is always voluntary, the will resisting the mind in a known Truth, and enjoining the tongue to speak that which is contrary to it; the heart also and affections desiring and delighting in it, either absolutely or conditionally in respect of circumstances. So that if the will embraceth not an untruth as it is untrue, but only as through error of the mind and judgement it is presented and commended unto it; and if the heart affecteth it not, nor delighteth in it as a lye, but only as it is disguised with some shadow or colour of truth, an untruth thus mistaken cannot be accounted a lye, because the will agreeth with the mind, and the tongue is directed by the will; ⟨p. 23⟩so that though a man speaketh a lye, yet he is no liar; because he neither thinketh that he lieth, nor would willingly do it if he knew it to be so. 2To this purpose Saint Augustine: There is a difference (saith he) between one that telleth a lye, and one that is a liar; for one may tell a lye that lieth unwillingly, but a liar loveth to lye, and dwelleth with his mind in the delight of lying.
The second thing considerable in the nature of 1a lye is, that it is alwayes voluntary, the will resisting the minde in a knowne Truth, and injoyning the tongue to speake that which is contrary to it; the heart also and affections desiring and delighting in it, either absolutely or conditionally in respect of circumstances. So that if the will imbraceth not an untruth as it is untrue, but onely as through errour of the minde and judgement it is presented and commended unto it; and if the heart affecteth it not, nor delighteth in it as a lye, but onely as it is disguised with some shaddow or colour of truth, an untruth thus mistaken cannot be accounted a lye, because the will agreeth with the minde, and the tongue is directed by the will; ⟨p. 23⟩so that though a man speaketh a lye, yet hee is no lyer; because he neither thinketh that hee lyeth, nor would willingly doe it if hee knew it to bee so.