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Show Prov. It· 1• Prov. 30. 8. Pfal.f.7· Col.j· 9· I T is a harder que !lion concerning thofe notes, which i as, I may fay, are coverfant in die commerce of men , of which fort properly is a ly. For, there are rna• ny places in Scripture againft lying. tA righteous (i.e. a.good ) m ·ll~ hateth .'J· ing;. RemQVC farfrum me vamt1ean6l Jm, ThQH fhalt dtftroy them tbat Jpeak}yes. Ly not one to another. And- this part is rigid-ly maintaind by Augu ftin : and there are t Alien~ vero among the Philofophers and Poets t, th~t prol11911~ nun· have the fame opinion. That of Homtr quam dccct. So- . phodes. 01m- IS famous; dacium od't . f1tti(qt4M animi- Who[e mind thinkJ one thing , atJd lm tuJ [apit. Cleo· Tongue doth tell bulus. tVfnother , I hate like the pit of Hell: '~~'I:t,.,~~/::J· ~riftotle faid , A ly u of it [elf foul ~~ie~, and and vttuperab/e, Trut? fair ar1d l~udable. uughr, Yet on the other fide IS not wantmg Au· Th.1ngs, of thoricy neither; firH:, Scripture-examples • wht.ch rhe of men approved without any note of re· Scnpture · f 1 paffes no cen- prehenfion ; next , the faytngs o t 1e an· fu re, but fet- tien t Chrittians , Origen , CLement, 1 er· tcth them tullian , LaCtantius , S. Chry[oftom' dowD-limply 'S Hierom Caffian yea almo!l: all 'as arc noc to be • ' ' l' g· h [i d' f con demned by S. Auguftin him[elf come e: , o 1 • us./.4. c. so. fentino, that he doth neverthelefsda c-n knowle ge 'The fhird part. 49t know1edg it to be a grea~ queftion, dark._, 111a J~b 1e& to varioU4 dijpmation of le~r-ned foe~. Among the Philo[op hers, plain-ly Rand on this fide ~ So~rates and his :Scholal's , Plato , Xen().fhon , and c;tcero Plato r. & 2.. iiomewhere ·and , if we believe Pltttarch?;. 1· 1 de repsu~ . .' . I S . l. h .Aeuop 1. <t· v- and Q_urnttltan, t 1e tote~ : w o,among ,rat. Plttt. de the oifts of a wife man , meijtion a dex- Stoic. coi1traa. terity to ly ~'Vhen , and IU one ought • .§(;)intil. 1:z..:. Nor doth ~riftotle feem to diffent in · tome places : w hofe IIJI9' (Avn • by it Je lf , in the faying afore, may be expounded com-monly; or the thing being confiderd with-out circumfbnces. And his ~nterpreter . 0ndroni~us R~odzus faith of~ Phrfician ;'~i~: t lying to h1s Pattent ; He dtcezve-s tdndcehd, «ftJ.ttt{: t-ti• . ,;~. yet is he not a 7J(ceiver: He :td es t e mrli il~< k•r. reafon: For hu purpofe u not to decdve, but to pre[erve the dtf:afd. Quimilian pleadino on this fide , iaith, There are very m:'ny things , which are honell or dithonelt, not fo much in the doing, as in the cauies of them. t And in the fame Orator I read, It u fometimes g:antcd to • a wife man to tell a ly. Euftathzus 0l.f(. trfipolttan of Thejfalonica , upon the fe-cond of the Odyjfes: A' wife man wilily , t Diphiius: .f)_ uod pro falute dieitl# mendaciilm Me ;udice habtrt nil llJle{l incommodi Q.ua:;renti :apud Sophodcm NeoptolemQ, Non tibi v.idetur tur1e [tt/jiloqurtttill? Refpondet lllyfies, . ?(on , {i {aiUJ 'llll{catztr tX mendttcio. Cui fimilla ex Pifandro & Euripidc adfcrt!titur. |
