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APPENDIX
TO sERIifOÑS
XX,
XXI, Á'ND- XXdi.
wide and
dreadful
floodgate
would
be
opened
by
this
means,
-to let
in
an
inundation
of
fraud and falsehood,
and
to practise all
manner
of
deceit
!
Let it be
remarked
also,
that
this
doctrine
is
near a-
idn
to the
popish abomination,
"
That
no faith
is
to
be
kept
with
heretics.; for they
are
a
sort
of
.dangerous
men,
who would
rùin
the church,
and therefore they'have no
right
to
truth."
Now what
.shameful
and horrid perju-
ries,
and what execrable
mischiefs, have
sprung
from
this one impious
principle
of
the church
of
Rome?
The
word
of God
gives
no
manner
of
indulgence to
such licentious principles
as these.
We
must
wrong no
man,
iefra.ud
ho
man;
we
must not render
to
any man
evil for
evil,
nor falsehood
for falsehood,
but
overcome
his
-evil
with
our
good
:
And
we
must
provide
things ho-
nest
in
the sight
of
'all
men.
It
will
be said,
perhaps;
that
the
scripture
most
"fre-
quently
mentions
a
neighbour or
a
brother,
or-
a-fellow-
christian,
in
the prohibitions
of
lying and falsehood, as
in
the
ninth
commandment,
Bear
no
false
witness
against
thy
neighbour.
i
Thess.
iv.
G.
That
no
man
de-
fraud
his
brother. Eph.
iv.
'25..
Speak
ever]
man
truth
to
his neighbour.
Lev.
xis.-
11.
Lie not
one to
another.'
But
let it
be
replied,
that
the
scriptùre
demands right
cousness for the
stranger
also;
I)eat.
i.
IG.
and
in
se-
veral
other
places.
And
when
God,
by his
prophet
.31alachi, forbids
treacherous
dealing
with
a brother, he
gives this
reason
for
it,
Have
we
not
all
one
Bather
?'
Bath
not
one
God created
us
?
Therefore
all
mankind
Are'
brethren
inthis
sense.-
Our
duty
speak and
prac-
tise truth,
arises=
from
our obligation
to
the-law
of
God;
and
since
God
has
not
released
us by
any
such
exceptions,'
the
lying
and
deceitful carriage
of
men does
not-
autho-
rize
us
to
practise deceit
and
lying.
It
is
indeed a piece
of
an
old
latin
verse,
that
is
in
the
mouth
of
many,
" I'allere'
fallentenr non est
'fra.us
;"
which
may
be
Englished
thus,
To
cheat
a knave
is
no
cheating
*But
I
knew
no verse
in
scripture that
gives
us
this liberty.
And
I'
think
we may
by
the
same
rule
steal
from them
that
would
steal from
us,
or plunder
those
who would
plunder
us.'
I
will readily
grant,
that
when
a
contractor
bargain
i,s
made,
whereby
both
parties are
obliged
mutually
to
per-