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Show of WA-r itndPeA&t at the time of [peaking '· t~at. right fubfi!l and remain: for, it mayJall out, that the 'oht that was may be .. taken avvay by atlln.Jo ther rioht fupervem• ent ; as a d. e b t , by acceptil~tfon, .or cdfation , of the co~di: tion. It1s- 1·equued further ' .that the ng~t which 1s impaired be hls wHh whom we fpeak, not anothers; as alfG in c?nm .. Cls; in ju{lice is not , but from the lmpatr.ed right. of the contractors.Htther perchance L'b d R you may not amifs refer, that 'Plato afrer 1 pu b.• r. e e- Simonidet reduces Truth of fpeech to. Ju-t Latt~nt. in~ ftit. 6. , 8. ue non mtntiatttr unquam deci· tiendi llUt noeentbcau[ a. , ·flice; and, that the holy. Scriptures ott.en· times defcr.ibe that forbtddtn ly, by atefiimony or fpeech aoainfl ones neighbour; and, that S. Auguftin ,himfelf, in ~onili· tucing the nature of a ly , put.s the mtent of deceivin<' t. And Cicero Wtll have the qudhon oft'peaking truth~r'eferred to. tht fundamentals of Jufl:ice.L N'ow, thenght of which we have fpokep~ i.t feems, rna! be taken a_way, as by t'h~~]fpr~fs confent of him with whom wo dea~ (as,tf one hatb foretold ,·he wlll :fpeak· falfe '.and t?e o· · :H. ~ 1 · ther hath ~ven leave 1) fo· alio by hts ~a· .o 2· ., cit confe~~, or prefitm•ed up·on goo~ rea· -·' fon , or by oppo£tic4W of._~notlier rtght. whicah ,; byrthe Common j~dgmemo~ all men is of much more )value / f.hree chmgs bein~ ~ell. underll:ooa , will furnifh us witb-m~my illations , 'cont1uCi.ng much to reconcile tlhe different opimons above mention' d.' l • . iil :: c , XI. XI. Five illations thence, about the Lawfulnefs of fpeak,jng fa!Je. F. Irft, although fomething be fp~ken to an Infant , or one bdide himtelf , that hath a falfe fignification , therein is not the crime of a 1 y. For it ieems to be permitted by the common lenfe of all men, that the Jimple age of Children be p!etu'd Lucrct. with fiCtions. And Q:tintilian fpeaking of Children, faith. We feign many thi11g.r for their benefit. The next reafon is , feeing Infants and tn?-d. men have not liberty ot judgmenc , 'there can be no in jury d.one them, as to that liberty. Secondly , as oft as the ipeech is directed to him who is not deceived , though a Third draw from thence a falfe perfwafion,it is no ly: Net . in refpe& of him, to whom the fpeech is; becauie his liberty remains enttre,even as theirs to whom a Tale is told wl~ich they underHand to be a Tale; or to whom is uttered a figurative f peech , ironicall or hyperbolicall (which figure, as Seneca** 1· De b~(. {;a 1.t h, by a Iy arn.v es at m.tt h , an d . l 2. 3.Senea 1b1d. IS ca - Tnmdibilia af-l~ d by f&intilian a lying fuperjetl:ion:) firmat, ut ad Nor in refpe& of him who hears it on c~edibilia perve· the by; becaufc the fpeaker hath nothing mar. to do with him, and fo to him there is ·no obligation. Yea, if himfelf create to him-fe\ fan opinion of that which ·is not faid tQ him,buc to another, he hath fomcwhat to impute, not to anotoer, but to himrclf. Kk For, |