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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	receive_v	truth_n	1,611	5	5.9464	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00406	The right rule of a religious life: or, The glasse of godlinesse Wherein euery man may behold his imperfections, how farre hee is out of the way of true Godlinesse, and learne to reduce his wandring steppes into the pathes of true pietie. In certaine lectures vpon the first chapter of the Epistle of S. Iames. The first part. By William Est preacher of Gods Word.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.	1616 (1616)	STC 10536; ESTC S118323	112,355	335

and falshood may bee more aptly diuided into 1 A lie in words 2 In manners 3 In the things themselues In words as the pernitious officious and iesting lie Where I except honestiests hiperbolicall speeches allegories c. which conteine vtilem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a profitable moralizing vpon a fable because there is in it no intent to deceiue neither any inequality betweene the speech and the minde nor will to speake falsely especially if wee haue respect to the equality of the thing The lie in manners includeth all hipocrisie dissimulation flattery c. Natura Cicero frons oculi vultus persaepementiuntur oratio vero saepissimè Nature the countenance the eye M. Curius a noble man in Rome of singular honesty wise dome Bacchus the drunken God of wine whom they honored with beastly ceremonies do oftentimes lie but the speech most often such go in sheepes cloathing but inwardly are rauening wolues Against such the Sonne of God denounceth woe in the Gospell Qui Curios simulant Bachanalia viuunt They Curious graue would seeme to be Yet Bacchus-like their liues we see The lie in substance of things containeth all falshood in buying and selling when naughty and corrupt things are sold and warranted for good or else one thing is sold to the ignorant for another as among the Physitions are many such as false Aloes false Balsamum c. whereby great and intollerable errors are cōmitted by vnskilful Physitians to the destruction of many 1. Thess 4.6 The Lord saith the Apostle is the auēger of such things Now let vs consider how grieuous a sinne it is First How grieuous a sin it is he that lyeth speaketh against God for God is truth and his Law is the rule of truth the lyar therefore sinneth against God himselfe Besides the truth that resteth in his minde against which the lyar speaketh is of the holy Ghost the author of all truth to lie then what is it else but to speak against the truth of God grauen in our hearts and so to bend our tongue against the holy Ghost 2 Euery lie is of the deuill who is a lyer and the father thereof Iohn 8. when hee speaketh a lie he speaketh of his owne And whatsoeuer is of the deuill must needes bee a most detestable vice therefore a wicked spirit is said to speake lies in the mouth of the false Prophets which seduced Ahab 1. Reg. 22. therefore a certaine ancient Writer vpon this place of Iohn the diuill is a lyar c. saith that whosoeuer is a lyer doth as it were couple himselfe with the deuils daughter and hath diuorced himselfe from Verity the off-spring of God For God is the father of truth and verity and a lyer honoureth the deuill as a childe doth his father who so then coupleth himselfe with the childe of the deuill let him looke also for the dowry which he is wont to giue to his children namely eternall damnation Apoc. 22.8 They shall haue their portion in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimestone 3 He that peruerteth the order constituted of God among men he grieuously sinneth and the lyer doth this for the order that God hath appointed is that by words the sense and meaning of the minde should be manifested and therefore words are said to be notes of these things which are conteined in the minde but the lyar saith contrary to that which is in his minde and therefore peruerteth the order of God and grieuously sinneth For this cause the Spirit of God saith Prou. 12. The lying lips are abhomination to the Lord. 4 The lyer saith an ancient Father blasphemeth God as doth the deuill for the deuill as much as in him lyeth Dat esse non enti giueth an essence to that which is not in that he saith that to be that is not but it is onely proper to the power of God to make to be things that are not the lyer therefore sacrilegiously as much as in him lyeth vsurpeth the power of God in affirming and giuing an essence to things which are not 5 What is more cleere then the testimony of the conscience of euery man when he lyeth For there is none that lyeth but perceiueth his conscience to accuse him as a malefactour whereof this is a most euident testimony because he that lyeth would not be counted a lyer nor euer confesse that he hath lyed and why so because it is naturally engraffed in our minds that lying is an euill thing and an offence and wickednesse full of shame and infamy yea the very children when they lie do know they haue done euill by the instinct of nature wherefore being conuicted of a lie they presently blush c. Againe it is a thing among all Nations receiued and obserned that a good man may haue no greater reproach done vnto him then if it be said vnto him tu mentiris thou lyest and what more effectuall then this common iudgement of all Nations to shew the filthinesse of this sinne and how vnworthy it is for a Christian man And surely not without cause for man was created after the image of God and God is Truth what then may bee more vnworthy for a man then to lie and bee a lyer especially seeing that this is the property of deuill as Christ witnesseth in the 8 of Iohn Of this which I haue said wee may easily gather the reasons that should moue vs to cast of lying The motiues and to deale plainely and truely with our brethren First because God in his holy Law hath forbidden vs to lie and commanded vs to speake the truth Secondly because it is very hurtfull to the lyer himselfe for with lying he prouoketh the wrath of God against him Psal 5. Prou. 6. God shall destroy them saith Dauid that speaketh lies And God hateth a lying tongue Wherefore among other causes why the godly are said to be receiued into heauen this is not the least Apoc. 14. Because there was no guile found in their mouthes Againe the lyer looseth his credite among all men so that afterward no man will beleeue him though he speaketh the truth Cicer. in lib. de deuina which Cicero notably expressed saying Homini mendaci ne vera quidem dicenti credere solemus We are not wont to beleeue a lyer though he speake the truth the reason is because Qui semel malus semper praesumitur malus in eodem genere mali It is presumed that he that was once euill is alwaies euill in the same kinde of euill Now it remaineth that I pray and beseech you brethren to whom your life and saluation is deere that yee carefully considering the heape of euils that the wicked tongue bringeth with it you would call daily vpon him in whom it onely lyeth to gouerne the tongue and say with the holy Prophet Psal 141. Set a watch ô Lord before my mouth and keepe the dore of my lips And