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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lie_v	speak_v	word_n	3,929	5	4.2262	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44606	A discourse concerning Ananias and Saphira wherein is laid open thier sin & punishment. By William Houghton, minister of Ordsoll in Nottinghamshire.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2937A; ESTC R215974	18,223	23

quite contrary 9 13. and Gehazi when he had been running after Naaman the Syrian for a bribe 2 King 5.25 came and stood in a demure posture before his Master Elisha saying Thy servant went no whither So Herod spake thus to the Magi Bring me word when ye have found him Mat. 2.8 that I may come and worship him also when he meant to murther him As to cover and conceale a fault in the presence of God especially who knoweth all things is dissimulation So to set forth a colour and shew of vertue and goodness there where it is not is Simulation and Counterfeiting and both this and that is hypocrisie and both to be seen in Ananias and Saphira for they kept secret their thievery and make a shew of their liberality they give their heart to Satan and their face to God they counterfeit the Holy Ghost being limbs of the devil they feigned that they had that special and excellent grace of God in their hearts which was then in the Church even the Communion of Saints in a rare and extraordinary manner when indeed they had Communion and Fellowship with Satan and he it was that had filled their hearts with devillish qualities Let it therefore teach us to take heed of this Inference Hypocrisie is such a sin that it makes him that in shew is an Angel of light Joh. 6.70 to be indeed a Fiend of darkness Judas one of the twelve Disciples of Christ and Doctors of the World is called a devil and therefore a devil because when he betrayed his Master he did it with a Kiss that execrable venome of Treason was blandisht over with a soft and gentle but hypocritical Kiss He came to Jesus and said hail Master and kissed him Mat. 26.49 I end this with that excellent saying of Chrysostome O hypocrite if it be good to be good why wilt thou not be that which thou wilt seem to be And if it be evil to be evil why wilt thou be that which thou wilt not seem to be If it be good to seem to be good it is better to be so And if it be evil to seem to be evil it is worse to be so therefore either seem as thou art or be as thou seemest to be Secondly It is called Lying to the Holy Ghost in this verse and Lying to God v. 4. that is he lyed to the Holy Ghost being God Lying is so linckt to Hypocrisie Lying to the Holy Ghost that it serves the same as an officious handmaid Now this lye of theirs was very cunningly contrived The proud saith David have imagined a lye against me Psal 119 69. Or it might be read thus They have trimmed their lyes Concinnaverunt mendacia drest and trimed them under the shadow and colour of truth So this lye of Ananias was very artificially trimmed up Jun. vatabl Many things come here to be considered about it 1. We find that it was a real lye not uttered in words but exhibited in their deeds while their outward and apparent deeds did much differ from a secret and concealed action Ananias in words did not utter an untruth but his deeds did he did not say that he did not keep back part but his deeds made shew of giving all therefore that deed of his was a lye for another secret deed namely keeping back part did contradict the same There are real lyes then as well as verbal such was this of Ananias That is the first 2. This Lye of theirs it was a concealing of the truth and truth sometimes may without sin be concealed A man is not bound to speak all the truth at all times yet it doth appear from this present example that to conceale a truth and not to tell it plainly when the glory of God is concerned in it and when it is expedient and profitable for men to know the same is a lye the making of a lye though not the telling of a lye therefore in bying or selling or in any other matter wherein a mans silence or concealing the truth may hurt his brother there his silence is a sin and his concealing the truth a lye I know what many will object If this be so we may go shut up our shops for should we tell the fault of our goods we should hinder our selves in the sale But is it not better to hinder thy self in thy goods than to offend thy God nakedly and plainly to declare the goodness or badness of thy Commodities than by taking advantage of the buyers ignorance to have singultum cordis 1 Sam. 25.31 that is a throbbing heart an accusing conscience This sin the of Ananias it was a lye it was a real lye and it was a lye in the point of concealment because they concealed the truth 3. Further It is said to be a lye made to God because it was secret so that none but God could find it out it was cunningly contrived in his deeds therefore very secret and hidden yet God findeth it out He who is the Author of all truth hath said it that there is nothing so secret but it shall be revealed it is not possible for man to conceal his untruth and iniquity from God He that made the eye shall not he see He that made the heart shall not he understand Psal 94.9 Surely he sees and knows all the Mazes and Meanders all the windings and turnings of our vain hearts Let this therefore teach us to hate and detest this sin of Lying These are the things wich ye shall do Inference speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour Zac 8.16 17. execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates Let none of you imagine evill in your hearts against his neighbour and love no false oath for all these are things that I hate saith the Lord. In like manner the Apostle Laying aside Lying speak ye the truth every man to his neighbour Ephes 4.25 for ye are members one of another So deal therefore one with another as one member of the body would deal with the rest Consider what hath been said against this sin That every lye is against the God of truth and he will find it out that it was the sin of these two notable hypocrites and a sin that must help them out in their hypocrisie they could never have made the World think so well of them if the lye had not come in to help them Further Lying is the devils badge a mark of his disciples Joh. 8.44 who himself is the father of lies It is joyned and coupled together by the Prophet Hosea with four other capital sins Hos 4.2 Swearing Murther Theft Adultery Surely they that hide themselves under falshood and deceit Isa 28.15 and make lyes their refuge will in the end be found to be but under a bad shelter For saith David the Lord who loveth truth and righteousness Psal 45.7