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B00232	Christian policie: or The christian common-wealth. Published for the good of Kings, and Princes, and such as are in authoritie vnder them, and trusted with state affaires. / Written in Spanish, and translated into English..; República y policía christiana. English. 1632	Juan de Santa María, fray, d. 1622.; Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1632 (1632)	STC 14830.7; ESTC S1255	347,168	505

another mans faith and credit by telling him hee lyes And it is a thing much to be laughed at or to say better much to be lamented to see the great folly and rash proceeding which passeth in this kinde and concerning this matter for they acknowledging in these their Lawes and Duels what a great obligation they haue to maintaine this their faith reputation and credit by alwayes saying and treating truth vpon the very least aspersion shadowe or note of falshood they risent it so much that they sticke not to fall into a worse sinne such as is a very Lye it selfe a loude lye by lying so easily and ordinarily as some doe I aske the question which is worse to bee lame or crooked or to say such a one is so when as there is no such thing Certainly it is much worse to be so then to be sayd to be so And to him that is not so me thinkes he should make but little reckoning of what they say in that kinde and should rather indeauour to flye from any default in himselfe then from the bare opinion and shadowe thereof Now a lye being a greater ill and a farre fouler default then all these men fall so easily thereinto and make so little scruple of Lying and more Lying vying Lye vpon lye yea euen those that will lay downe their life rather then indure that men should tell them they Lye though themselues know they lye and that they lye not who tell them they lye being onely offended with them that they will not take a Lye for a truth or at least let them goe away with it without the least reproofe or contradiction which ingenious natures can hardly indure especially when they know that they are in the right and the other in the wrong Certainely of all other Vices Lying is the most vnworthy noble and gentle blood And it is such a Labrinth that the more a man seekes to get out of it the more he findes himselfe out of the way So that a man striuing to get out of one lye falls into another and from that to a third and all of them worse then the former Heere I will aduertise by the way that it is a common and vsuall Language with your Courtiers which may seeme to carrye a shew of truth but indeede is full of lyes and falsehood And this it is When they will cumply in words with them who recommend themselues or their suites vnto them they say Sir vse you your best diligences for I will doe my part and God knowes that I haue and doe that which belongs to mee And true it is for God knowes that his part is to lye and onely to compliment with this poore pretender and to doe nothing at all in that which he pretendeth I apply my selfe to that olde and ancient language of the Noblemen of Castile ingrauen on the sword of Cid Rui DiaZ Si fi no no yea yea nay nay which is a Lesson that is taught vs by our Sauiour Christ in his holy Gospell This is that which befitteth all men but more especially Kings for to indeare this or that mans truth we vsually say Que tiene palabra de Rey That a King cannot keepe his word better then hee doth or is more precise of his promise And therefore I hold for certaine that that which Plato yeelds vnto Kings and Magistrates concerning this point if it bee well vnderstood is not to lye but to vse stratagemes and politicke deuises for to defeate and deceiue the enemies spyes and Intelligencers And I very well remember that my selfe communicating this conceit vpon occasion with one of the learnedst men and greatest Platonists that this Age afforded he approued of it and did much commend it for as concerning that truth and faith whereof we now treate Plato himselfe and all other the good Philosophers teach the rigour and strictnesse wherewith men ought to keepe their word In the booke of Iosua is recounted the craft wherwith the Ghibeonites mooued the Princes of Israel to plight them their faith that they would doe them no harme And though afterwards this their cunning dealing was discouered and brought to light and that all the people were willing that this promise should not be kept yet the Princes of the people made answer thereunto that they could not but cumply with their word especially hauing confirmed it with an oath Iurauimus eis in nomine Domini Dei Israel Iosh 9.15 idcircò non possumus eos contingere We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel and therefore wee may not hurt them And because many yeares after King Saul out of a zeale to the good of his people broake that their word and promise there fell vpon him and his people a great famine which continued for the space of three yeares King Don Sancho whom they slew by treason confessed that that death lighted worthily vpon him because hee had broaken his word giuen to his father King Don Fernando to passe the partition made with his brethren And the constancie of Dauid is knowen to all in keeping that his word which all the while he liued hee gaue to Shimei that hee would not put him to death according to the desert of his irreuerent language and disrespect to his person And both diuine and humane Letters are full of the seuere chasticements which God hath inflicted vpon those who haue not beene faithfull in the keeping of their faith and word For being that he himselfe is most faithfull and doth boast himselfe to bee so he will likewise that men should be so one towards another S. Isidore with a great number of words affirmeth Isidor lib. 2. Synonimorum D. Th. 2.2 q. 100. art 4. ad 5. That we ought not to deceiue any man and that all infidelitie is sinne That no man ought to faile in that which he hath promised That it is requisite in all men that their workes concurre with their words without admitting any exception more then in two Cases As when that which is promised cannot be performed without sinne Or when the businesses or the persons admit some notable change And hee citeth the example of Saint Paul Who promised to go to Corinth 2 Cor. 1.19 but could not be as good as his word for those lawfull impediments which hindred this his intended Iourney Whence it followeth That things continuing in the same Estate a man may not for the conueniences of his priuate profit be wanting to his promise And to maintaine the contrarie is to lay trapps against the truth of faith and to arme policie against the religion of an oath In a word all doe resolue that all promises are to be kept and that no deceite or faithlesse dealing ought to be tolerated And the reason whereupon they ground it is common for that fidelitas est fundamentum Iustitiae Faithfullnesse is the foundation of Iustice and all Contractation And that this being taken away all commerce