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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 6A TREATISE AGAINST THE SINNE OF LYING. › Chapter 6
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.
Another Cause is oblivion and forgetfulness of God, for many that know Gods Nature and Attributes, and will acknowledge that he is omniscient, omnipotent, just and true in all his Word and ways, yet fall into this sin through forgetfulness, not pondering and considering what they know, when they should make use of it to keep them from sinning. And of this the Prophet Isaiah speaketh; Of whom (saith he) hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou 1hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?
Another Cause is oblivion and forgetfulnesse of God, for many that know Gods Nature and Attributes, and will acknowledge that he is omniscient, omnipotent, just and true in all his Word and wayes, yet fall into this sinne through forgetfulnesse, not pondering and considering what they know, when they should make use of it to keepe them from sinning. And of this the Prophet Esay speaketh; Of whom (saith hee) hast thou beene affraid or feared, that thou 1hast lyed, and hast not remembred mee, nor laid it to thy heart?
A third Cause of lying is our inordinate and 1immoderate fear of men more than of God; the which the Prophet implieth in the same words; Of whom hast thou been afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me whom thou hast more cause to fear than all men or devils? For they at the most can but kill the body, but God can also cast body and soul into hell. Neither is either man or devil 2