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A19072 Politique discourses upon trueth and lying An instruction to princes to keepe their faith and promise: containing the summe of Christian and morall philosophie, and the duetie of a good man in sundrie politique discourses vpon the trueth and lying. First composed by Sir Martyn Cognet ... Newly translated out of French into English, by Sir Edward Hoby, Knight.; Instruction aux princes pour garder la foy promise. English Coignet, Matthieu, sieur de La Thuillerie, 1514-1586.; Hoby, Edward, Sir, 1560-1617. 1586 (1586) STC 5486; ESTC S108450 244,085 262

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which carie an inscription in the front of manie remedies and excellent drogues but within there is eyther nought auaileable or else peraduenture some poyson which our Sauiour reproched the Pharises with that they clensed the outside but within was full of rauening and iniquitie And God in the 29. of Isaiah sayth This people commeth neare vnto mee with their mouth and honour mee with their lippes but haue remoued their heart farre from me and their feare towarde me was taught by the preceptes of men The same did he cast in the Iewes teeth Matth. 15. Mar. 7. and in the 48. of Isaiah You turne your selues from me and make mention of me but not in truth nor righteousnesse It is not without cause written in Iob The hypocrites hope shall perish his confidence also shall be cut off and his trust shall be as the house of a spider Neither was it ill pictured of him who in the right hand put a tongue and in the left drewe a long a heart All deceites are likewise proper as Seneca writeth to a base and mischeeuous minde and to be detested of an honest man I would desire euerie one that meaneth to estrange himselfe from hypocrisie to consider his debt vnto his creator to wit to imploye himselfe and whatsoeuer is giuen vnto him our being our life our senses our speech our actions brieflie all that wee haue in vs or without vs for his seruice And that contrariwise we turne all things to our selues as to their end And if we make a regyster of our life what part thereof we giue to God to whom all is dewe And see howe much we are mooued if a body doe but speake euill of our friend and neuer regard nor care for blasphemies against God or iniuries against our neighbour being his image We deserue to be called the children of the earth as they were woont to call bastardes For we doe followe earthly thinges despising the spirituall for which we were created We must not thinke it strange if the Philosopher toke a light at noone day to seeke a man in the midst of a presse for the greatest part serue to vanitie and leasing and no whit obey vertue And if our eye sight could but enter so farre we should finde manie sauage beastes hidden in some men which make semblance to bee vertuous and yet will not confesse their fault to the Phisition who by their confession should the nearer approch to iustice according to the opinion of Aristotle the Diuines and other auncient writers which say that the confession of sinne is the remedie thereof S. Basill praysed the aboue sayde opinion of Plato touching the vniust that counterfayted to be iust and blamed that sayde in Euripides that he rather desired to seeme good then to be Dauid after he had declared the happinesse of them whose sinnes the Lorde had pardoned and couered addeth those in whose spirite there is no guile nor hypocrisie with which that faith which resteth in the heart not in bare countenance hath no acquaintance CHAP. 7. That those which loue the truth should shewe it by good workes and of the meanes which doe leade vs thereunto and of those which are farre from it OVr Sauiour sayeth that they which are of the truth heare his voice so consequently obey him And saint Iohn in his first Epistle after hauing shewed our inclination to sinne and that our sauiour Christ Iesus offred himselfe for our deliuerance and that he is our aduocate and also that faith in the mercie of God is ioyned with a loue and obedience he addeth that he wrote those things vnto them that they sinne not and he that sayth he knewe God and doeth not keepe his commaundementes is a lyer and the trueth is not in him For as Paul writeth we are deliuered from sinne to the end we should liue to righteousnesse and their sinnes are forgiuen that acknowledge and confesse them detesting and shunning them and hope for life eternall And to this end as well the law as the gospell tendeth that we liue no more in sinne but enforce our selues to followe truth righteousnesse and holinesse Yea the verie worlde was created for the vse of men that thereby they might glorifie God The promisses were giuen and Christ Iesus came into the worlde to the ende that by participating his so great benefites we should learne to obey God whose people we are called of him in his Church that euerie one should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holinesse and honour and not in the lust of concupiscence being iustified through him to the end we should serue thorough righteousnesse and not defile our bodies being his temple For The eyes of the Lorde sayth Ieremie are vpon the truth S. Iames writeth that they abuse themselues who boast that they haue faith and shewe it not by their good workes S. Paul also requireth that faith that worketh thorough charity for as much as the sonne of God appeared to the ende that they which are his should be clensed of all their filthinesse and required such disciples who renouncing them selues shoulde followe him not searching any more their owne pleasure but to obey God and dispose them selues to pacience long suffering and all vertues And we haue beene deliuered from the bondage of sinne to the end we should walke before God all the daies of our life in in holinesse and righteousnesse And the grace of God that bringeth saluation vnto all men hath appeared vnto vs and teacheth vs that we should deny vngodlinesse and worldly lust and that we should liue soberly and righteously and godly in this present worlde looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glorie of the mightie God and of our sauiour Iesus Christ We be the temples of the holy ghost which we must not defile we are consecrated and dedicated to God and are not our owne nor darkenesse but light in God and therefore we ought to walke as children of the light and to liue and die to the Lorde to whom we appertaine And our sanctification is the will of the Lorde to the ende we should abstaine from all naughtie desires And S. Iohn saide in his first Canonicall that in this the children of light differ from the children of darkenesse in that they loue one another as members of one bodie and that they who haue hope of life sanctifie themselues since their God is holie And if we loue God in respect of the benefites which we receiue continually at his handes and beleeue that he is our prouident father it is vnpossible but we should manifest this loue by our obedience Dauid saide Mercie is with thee O Lorde that thou mayst be feared As if he woulde saye that the foundation of the feare of God is to knowe his great mercie And in respect of the accorde which is betweene trueth and mercie they haue euer beene ioyned together as in the