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Ephefiani
Chap.q..
Vit
11.2.5)
look
at
their
dealing
with men,they
have no
truth nor mercy.So
many
men formorali parts,unblameable,one would think
them little
Saints,
void
of wrath,
of
uncleannefie,
no fwearers, true
in
their dealings,
yet
they
have
nothing
in
truth,
becaufe
the
fame men have no
acquain-
tance with Faith and repentance,
nor no
care
of
holy
and religious
exercifes.
VERS.
25.
V
E R
SE
25.
Wherefore
putting
away
lying,
j
eake every
man
truth
unto his
neighbour:
for
we
are members
one
of
another.
Now
he commeth to more particular precepts
:
The
r.
concerning
truth
in fpeech.
Duty
The
fum
meofthis
verfe
is
thC',
Reaaffons.
r.
Negatively;
Cafl
away
lying.
The
duty
laid
downe
a. By
affirmation;
speak the
truth
every
one
with
bis neighbour.
The
Reafons are
two.
a'. To
be gathered from
tie
word
Where-
fore,
which
COI.
3.
9..
is
laid
downe
at
large,
seeing
you
haveput
of
the
oldman, with
his works,
andput
on
the new.
The
fccond Reafon follow.
eth
in
the end
of
the words,far
we
are members
one
of
another;
for we
arc
by thebond
of
love
molt
ftrattly tycd one to another.
D..
To
come unto the points
of
the verfe: a.
Herewe fee,
Chriftians
mutt
avoid
ly-
That
fueh
as arethe
true
members
ofchrill,ma/l
avoid
all lying.
in
Before we can
handle it,
we
mutt tell you what
it
is
to lie.
4Of.
Though
we diftinguilh
betwixt lying
and telling
untruth,
yet the
what
lying,.
Scripture
doth
call
the telling
of
untruth,
lying
:
for whatfoeveris
not
(peaking
of
truth, that
is
lying
by the
phrafe
of
Scripture.
7o
lye] therefore
is
to
fpeak
that which agrecthnot
with
ourmind,
or
which agreeth not with the truth
of
the matter,or which
difagreeth
from both: This
every one granteth
to
be
a
lye, when
a
man
fpeaketh
one thing
and
knoweth another, or thinketh another to be true.
And
this
againe
is a
lye when
a
man fpeaketh
as
he meaneth
,
but
yet
his
meaning
mifl'eth
of
the truth
of
the matter
:
as
if
I
fayand
think fo,
that
it
is
9. of
the clock,
w
hen
it is
but
8.
it
is a
lye
:
for
as
the
firft is
grounded
in
wilful)
falfhood;fo this latter
is
grounded
in a
finfull
heed
-
feffenefFe,
for
a
wifeman should
work and
¡peak
by
knowledge,Prov.
13.15.
Now
then that we know what the Scripture calleth lying,
we
may more profitably handle our doctrine, which
we will prove
and
apply,
and
then
conclude
with
clearing
in
way
of
cautions force kinde
of
fpeeches
which
have appearance
of
untruth, but
are
not fo.
True Chrifllans mull avoid alllying
;
for Zeph. 3.13. the Lord
faith
ofthe
remnant
of
Ifrael, that
is, all
the true members
of
the
Church,
they(houlddoe
no
iniquity,
neither fhoald
they
f)eake lye;.
W
e need
not
nga
n4
sport-
more
places, and this
is
to be conceived
of
all
lyes, not
only
Hurt-
full and
orfici.
full
ones,
but Delightful!,
Officious lyes
:
for
all
lyes are
alike in
this
ous lycs.
text forbidden, which
we may thus
gather.
Every
lie
that
fiandeth not
with truth
is
here
forbidden:But
all
lies
diffent
from truth
; for
if
one
fhould fave a foul
with
a
lie, and
another
should
destroy
afoul
by
a lie,
they