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Some things
Mach have
femblance
of
Iyes
but
arc
not.
I.
2.
Gen.
20.0.11.
3.
4
Deli.
We mull
be
careful'
to
fpeake
the
truth.
rely
Ani
What
it
is
ro
fpeake
truth.
PCai.
tI.
It
includeth
3.
things.
deg.
Sn(
I.
When
truth
is
to
be
woken
and
notcon-
cealed.
3.
lie
I.
Ephefians,
Chap.4.
V
I
R.
z5,
idle words
fhould be puni(hed
with
lying
words.
Thirdly,
we
muff
thinke
of
the judgment which
God
hath
threat-
ned againtt lying and
them
that
love lyes, Revel. 2
r.
27.
Now
followeth the
laft
thing,the
neceffary prevention in this do.
Chine,
left we fhould condemne
of
lying,things that have no
unpurh.
We
muff
know therefore,
that
Allegories, fables, &c. they
are
not untruths,
becaufe
the
fenfe and meaning
of
them,though
not
the
letterof them, doth not
difagree from
truth,
for
a
fable
is
nothing but
a
fpeech
by
piétures.
Concealements
are
not
lyes,fuch was
i4brahams,that
Sarah
tras
his
fler
:
Samuels,in
laying that
he
went
to
Sacrifice,
t
Sam. 15.
Speeches fpoken
according
ro prefent intention,
without
prejudi-
cing future
liberty:as when
I
refute a
thing atboord,and prefently
after
take
it,when
I fay
I will come
fee
one and
do not;
as
Gen.t9.a.the An.
gels
being invited by
Abraham
to
come into
his house
faid,Nay
,but
wee
will
abide
in the
ftreet
all
night; but
upon importunitie,they turned
into
him,
2
Cer.I.17.
Fibtions
or Ironies,
as
when I
fee my
child have
a
knife, I draw
the
backe
of
it over
his hand and tell him
I
will cut
off
his
hand.
To
pro
-
ceede.
Speake
the
truth.]
Obferve,
t.fts
we
mull avoydlying, fe
we
mutt
lee
carefuU
that
the
thing
be
truth
which
we
fpeake.
Before we handle it,
we
mutt, marke
what
it
is
to
fpeake
the truth.
To
fpeake
as
I
thinke,
and
thinke
of
this
or that
as
it
is
:
this double
harmony
of
theminde
with the
matter, and the mouth
with the
mind,
maketh
up
the
fpeaking
of
truth.
And
that
all
Chrifts
are bound thus
to
fpeake
the
truth,
it
is
laid
downe,
Zach.
8.16.
Ton
(hall
/feake the
truth
one to
another; lerufalem
whole
children
we
are all,
isa
City
of
truth,he that
will
dwell
in
the
everlafting
tabernacles,mufi
(peak
the
truth
from
his
heart.
And
this fpeaking
the truth includeth thefe
3. things.
r.
That
I
!hall
not
deny
that
I
know to be truth.
2.
That
whatfoever
I
fpeake be
truth,and that
known
tome.
3.
That
then I doe confeffe truth when
it
is
to
be
fpoken,
and
may no
longer be
concealed.
Now
this
is a
queflion
which
muff
be
affoyled.
When
amt
bound to
fpeake
the truth
When Authority,
Temporall or
Ecclefiafticall,
doth
lawfully re-
quire.
When
Gods glory or my
neighbours
good
is
procured,
or Gods
di(honour and my neighbours hurtavoyded by
ir.
When
Circumftances
of
time,
perfon and
place
make
it
fit
to
be
uttered.
This therefore doth convince the want
of
truth
which
is
in
us;
as
likewife
the
unjuft
concealment
of
truth;
as
fometime weknow that
which would make
a
caufe
goe where the right
of
it is,
and yet
open
not the
matter. Sometime we heare contrary
to
truth,
our brethren
charged, yet
witneffe not
the truth
in
challenging their names.As
thus
opened